Add Profile / Extrusion

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Add Profile / Extrusion

What is a Profile / Extrusion?

A Profile/Extrusion is a Solid.

Use Add Profile/Extrusion to add a Profile to a sketch-loop. We also add for you an Extrusion element as a child to the Profile.

You can add many Profile/Extrusions to the same sketch-loop.


Note:

The Follower-Profile you select when you Add 2D-Cam / Add 3D-Cam is a Profile element.

See also: Shape of the Follower-Profile.


Terminology:

Sketch-Loop :

A series of sketch-elements, that you join end to end to form a closed loop. The start-Points and end-Points where the sketch-elements join together must be merged to one Point. Sketch-loops cannot cross over each other. They cannot branch.

Profile :

Two offset contours that are a copy of the sketch-loop you select when you do Add Profile.

extrusion :

The Solid between the two offset contours.


Preparation for Add Profile / Extrusion

3x Sketch-Loops in a Part

3x Sketch-Loops in a Part

 

Three example sketch-loops in the model before you do Add Profile:

A Sketch-loop is in a Part

There are three different sketch-loops in the image to the left.

Add Profile / Extrusion

MD-ADD-PROFILE-COMMANDMANGER

STEP 1:Start the Add Profile command

MD-Icon-AddProfile

1.Click Add menu > Mechanism menu  > Solids sub-menu > Add Profile

OR

1.Click Solids toolbar > Add Profile

The Command-Manager starts.

3x Sketch-Loops in a Part

3x Sketch-Loops in a Part

STEP 2:Select a sketch-element that belongs to a sketch-loop

1.Click a sketch-elementRed-14-1 that is in one sketch-loop, or a Polyline

The name of the sketch-element is in the Command-Manager.

 

3 x Profile Contours in graphic-area

3 x Profile Contours in graphic-area

STEP 3:Complete the command:

1.Click OK-tiny-11-15 in the Command-Manager.

We add for you a Profile and Extrusion to the sketch-loop that you select.

Do 1 - 3 again to add a Profile to a different, or the same, sketch-loop.


RESULT: Graphic-Area:

We add for you the two contours of the Profile, which are copies of the sketch-loop, and the Extrusion, that is the Solid between the two Profile contours.

One of the contours is coplanar with the sketch-loop that you select.

Use the Extrusion dialog to move the contours and Extrusion relative to the sketch-loop, as required.

To see the Extrusion, enable Visibility toolbar > Show Solids in Mechanisms

See also How to open the Extrusion dialog

 


The images shows 3 × Profile / Extrusion.

The default color of the Extrusion is Blue.

 

 

3 x Extrusions in graphic-area

3 x Extrusions in graphic-area

Profile and Extrion elements in the Assembly-Tree

Profile and Extrion elements in the Assembly-Tree

Assembly-Tree:

The Profile is a child to the Part in which there is the sketch-loop.

The Extrusion is a child to the Profile.

See also :

Tutorial 4: Add Profile (external link)

Add Auto-Profile, Add Auto-Profiles, Polyline Sketch-Loop

Video Add Profile:

Add a Profile to a Sketch-Loop


How to edit an Extrusion

MD-GA-SHIFT+CLICK PROFILE

To EDIT an Extrusion Element - with the Selection-Window.

In the graphic-area

1.SHIFT-CLICK the Profile

The Profile and Extrusion show in the Selection-Window.

In the Selection-Window:

2.Right-click the Extrusion

In the shortcut menu

3.Click Edit element

The Extrusion dialog opens.

See Extrusion dialog

 

OR

SELECTION-WINDOW: Right-Click

SELECTION-WINDOW: Right-Click

ASSEMBLY-TREE -  Right-click Extrusion

ASSEMBLY-TREE -
Right-click Extrusion

To EDIT an Extrusion Element - in the Assembly-Tree

In the Assembly-Tree

1.Click the Profile to expand and see the Extrusion element - a child to the Profile element

2.Click the Extrusion to make sure it has a square orange box around the Extrusion icon

3.Right-click the Extrusion

In the shortcut menu

4.Click Edit element.

How to delete a Profile

ASSEMBLY-TREE - Delete Profile

ASSEMBLY-TREE -  Delete Profile

To DELETE a Profile Element

In the graphic-area

1.CLICK the Profile

The Profile shows in the Selection-Window.

In the Selection-Window:

2.Right-click the Profile

In the shortcut menu

3.Click Delete

We delete for you the Profile and the Extrusion elements from the model.