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Auto-Profile is a tool to automatically add a sketch-loop and Profile/Extrusion to a Part.

Note: You must do Visibility toolbar > Show Model in Mechanism to see the Auto-Profile Solids.

Command:

Solids menu [or toolbar] > Add Auto-Profile...[Part]

This command also removes an Auto-Profile

What to do:

1.	Click Solids Toolbar > Add Auto-Profile

The Command-Manager start. There is one selection-box.

2.	Click a Part-Outline.

3.	Click in the Command-Manager.

Do Steps 1 -3 again to add another Auto-Profile, or to remove an Auto-Profile

Result:

MechDesigner adds a sketch-loop and Auto-Profile to the Part.

The sketch-loop is loops the ends of the CAD-Line and other fully defined sketch-elements that you may use in the Part to define a Joint.

Experiment to learn more details.

Notes:

The sketch-elements that are the sketch-loop and shape of each Auto-Profile have different properties to sketch-elements you add in the Part-Editor.

They are different in the following ways:

1.	They are grey in the Part-Editor

This is to help you identify them from sketch-elements you add.

2.	You cannot select or delete the sketch-elements in the Part-Editor

3.	You cannot delete any constraints

4.	You can change the dimensions to edit the size of the sketch-loop

5.	You cannot add Pin-Joints, Slide-Joints, Ball-Joint or Planes to a sketch-element used for an Auto-Profile

SW-Edit Auto-Profile-Extrusion

Edit an Extrusion

1.	Click an Auto-Profile in the Assembly-Tree so that it shows in the Selection-Window

The Auto-Profile and the Extrusion show in the Selection-Window

2.	Right-Click the Extrusion in the Selection-Window

3.	Click 'Edit element' from the contextual-menu

The Extrusion dialog-box opens

See Extrusion dialog-box for more information

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