Bi-Directional "To Geometry"&"To Next" option
The ability to Extrude, Sweep, Fillet, or Chamfer from one geometry (Solid or Reference Plane etc.) to another - the position of the defining Sketch (in the case of Extrude & Sweep) being at any point .
Miles Hellon
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eldermc42
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Please please please make this happen... I do a lot of modelling of tubular steel structures, and this would cut the model size in half and significantly speed up regen, save, etc...
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EK
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Should also allow Extrusion and Cut on multiple closed loops, within the same sketch, with "To Geometry" and To Next options"
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ChiknNutz
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I think this is also how Catia and Unigraphics work too, but it's been a while since I've used either...sure seems like a familar feature though. I was modeling something just a couple days ago, looking for this and couldn't find a "turn-key" solution, so I made due with what there was.
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Mike Budzien (OTE_TheMissile)
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@russelltuckerman - I believe that's how Pro/E works, when you go to extrude a Sketch both directions have their own completely separate pull-down menus. Even the Through All option, it goes Through All but only in one direction. If you want to go straight through the whole part, you simply select the pull-down menu for the other direction and set it to Through All as well. The only exception is using a Mid-plane definition, which would gray out the other drop-down menu.
I find myself wanting this whenever I'm drilling holes through one wall of a tube. Generally a straight tube runs along one of the default axis (axes? axis'? lol) so I Sketch my hole on one of the default planes and make a blind Cut, and for a depth I just pull a number out of midair, as long as it's greater than the radius of the tube. Not that that doesn't work, I just feel like it's bad CAD practice to have a blind Cut ending somewhere out in empty space.
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russelltuckerman
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Even more control would be seperate ending options in each direction, such as "To geometry" in one direction and "to next" in the other.
