Extruded cut grayed out solidworks torrent

This is a short tutorial teaching you how to make an extruded cut on solidworks. Also under optionsperformance the gl option is grayed out as well. Solidworks 2017 tutorials using the extruded cut feature. Now trying to extruded cut a hole through the object, but the extruded cut option is unavailable, it is greyed out. How to use extruded cut on solidworks how to use cut extrude on solidworks how to use hole wizard feature in solidworks here are some helpful links. The extrude cut button in the features tab will be activated only if you have at least one object. There are several features of this tool that allow you to either cut through small sections of an object or through its entirety. You dont have any surface features in your model which is why the command is greyed out. Video instructions on how to do an extruded cut in solidworks. In the last step, we used an open sketch to make an extruded cut.

Nevertheless i did find what i was doing wrong i was creating another part and trying to cut it out instead of using a 2d sketch. Worm gear shaft drawing brokenout section spline property tab builder. Photoview 360 commands are only available on the toolbar when photoview 360 is added in to solidworks. For cnc, i dont need to draw the groove for the lenses, but for 3d printing i do. The field for offset is grayed out and cannot be filled in. Search end condition extrude in the solidworks knowledge base. Sometimes imported iges files create an assembly in solidworks if the iges file has separate solid bodies. Provide feedback on this topic solidworks welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation, accuracy, and. Click extruded cut or revolved cut features toolbar, or click insert assembly feature cut, then extrude or revolve. This behavior is mostly attributed to being in a mode that doesnt support those functions. Extruded cutting is one of the helpful features of solidworks. I attached the photos so you could see whats wrong and what i am looking for. Tried extruding the sketch and trying to use the common trim and still nothing. It either cuts the entire part or doesnt want to cut at all.

Watch this online tutorial video to gain a better understanding of modifying parts using the extruded cut tool. Solidworks tutorials extruded boss on non planar surface duration. To report problems encountered with the web help interface and search, contact your local support representative. Loss of solidworks functionality computer aided technology. How to cut solid body solidworks engineers edge engineering. Extruded cut feature in solidworks, tutorial solidworks. To access the render tools toolbar, click view toolbars render tools. I can still edit features but its annoying to not know what. The problem is that youre trying to extrude a boss in an assembly, not in a part. This just happened to me this morning, i split a part into a multibody part and as soon as i did the split, the entire design tree got greyed out.

Combine greyed out so cannot subtract solidworks forums. The surface cuts only the bodies you select using the pointer. It will default to cutting away the middle of your deck, but if you click flip side to cut, it will cut. The more you understand solidworks the more you realize that even the most complex parts are made and changed in a similar fashion to the steps in these tutorials. You can thicken a surface to cut a solid and create multibody parts. Insert an isometric view in a shaded mode with a 0. Besides a regular extruded cut there are some very interesting options to play around with inside this common. Open a part that has either a closed profile sketch and a sketch path, or a part with a sketch line, edge or curve on the model that you can specify as a path. Adobe, the adobe logo, acrobat, the adobe pdf logo, distiller and reader are registered.

I cut many models in different components all the time and dont have a problem with design intent or unexspected results. You can usually find the sketch under an extrude in the feature manager design tree. Greetings mos88, if the tools are grayed out lets start with the basics. Extrude cut and surface share share this awesome discussion with your friends. Not sure about exact reason but try restarting solidworks or your system and try again.

I want to make an extruded cut out of an stl file i downloaded and opened with solidworks. Fyi, form the help about freecad info you posted, platform. I keep looking for the explode text or convert to primitive button but cannot find it. I hope it useful for every one start to learn solidworks. This tool allows you to cut out portions of a threedimensional sketch quickly and easily. Guide to solidworks 2016 readable level i menu computing. The new hole will be cut out of the link and your link. Join gabriel corbett for an indepth discussion in this video using the extruded cut feature, part of solidworks 2016 essential training. Open the wedgefeature part from the solidworks cswa.

The left panel contains the following solidworks document windows. For example a feature that was released in 2012 was the ability to create an exploded view in a multibody part file. Extruded cut only working as a thin feature with weird geometry. Join gabriel corbett for an indepth discussion in this video, using the extruded cut feature, part of solidworks 2017 essential training. Then you should check my solidworks yacht tutorial. I drew a sketch on the front plane, but the extruded cut tool is grayed out, along with all the other cut tools. If you add new bodies to the model that precede the cut feature in the featuremanager design tree and that are intersected by the cutting surface, these new bodies are also rebuilt to include the cut. In assemblies you can remove material but not add it, which may be the explanation as to why the extrude feature is greyed out and the cut feature is available. For a solid profile, open a part that has a tool body as the profile and a sketch path to follow. In your part only ribs are solid,all three major bodies are surfaces so you cannot supposed to do cut extrude thro those. Working on a pair of sunglasses fit for 3d printing, firtst time for me. After that what workbench are you using and what are you trying to accomplish.

Set the options as needed in the extrude or revolve propertymanager. It looks good, but all i need it to cut a few things out. Prior to solidworks 2017, extruding a boss or a cut feature fromto a face required the sketch to project within the boundary of the selected face or surface. In most cases you will use a closed sketch for an extruded cut. There must be a quickereasier route than the one i am currently using. Currently i am doing the parts tutorial and i am at the end. You have to delete the feature entirely keep the sketch and reissue the cut extrude command. I made a closed figure on a plane adjacent to the front plane, but all of my cut options are greyed out. Extrude subtract command grayed out you are right what i meant to say was the cut command withing extrude. I want it to cut extrude 1mm to the side and 1mm into the frame, creating a. Youll learn about the extruded cut command, equal relation, trim command, and snapping to centers of arcs.

I know this question has been asked before and i have gone through almost all the discussions on this topic but i cant get my head around this. When i load the model the extrude cut button is grayed out. If points are out of the depth range, they will disappear from the model. Right click edit one of your parts, or insert a new one. If you are cutting a multibody part, set the feature scope options. The cut extrude feature is use to create a cut in a solid. I have created a 3d sketch from a curve and i need to cut extrude this shapesketch formed by the gray lines to a depth of 2mm. Extrude subtract command grayed out autodesk community.

As an example, how do you edit your text on letters such as. You will learn about all the options of the command and also learn a strategy for. I was wondering how you sw gurus are editing your text cut extrudes. It doesnt matter if i have only one body visible or both of them, the tree stays greyed out. Im finding trouble in getting used to extrude cut in inventor. You can cut through assemblies, which is what youve done already, but you cant extrude. I have drawn a 3d sketch on the edge of where the lens has to be.

Whats the best way to proceed provided i already have a 3d sketch. To add or remove a profile, the ok button is greyed out and no matter what i do, i cant get it back. The computeraided design cad files and all associated content posted to this website are created, uploaded, managed and owned by third party users. Is 3d scanning the only step in creating a cadready file. Why is offset grayed out when i try to extrude a sketch at an alternative position. With my sheet metal loft already created i need to start breaking this out to manageable. The cultural heritage domain also uses cuttingedge 3d scanning technology. I have been working on my helmet a while now, i got advice from others on this forum to do surface modeling instead of a lot of extruded cuts. You may be working in an assembly and do not realize it. Base extrusion top extrusion fillets inside cut a front boss mirror front boss side boss. I have combined 3 parts mated in an assembly drawing into one solidworks part. Not sure, but it seems solidworks does not see the surfacerevolve as a solid body and therefore will not cut it.

Solidworks 2015 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead, click help use solidworks web help. One of my assignments is to complete some of the tutorials. Extrude cut intersection sketch autodesk community. In solidworks, im habituated to draw the closed sketch of what needs be kept and select flip cut so that whatever is not in the sketch gets deleted. Click thickened cut on the features toolbar, or click insert, cut, thicken under thicken parameters, do the following in the graphics area, select a surface to thicken. Solidworks 2017 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead, click help use solidworks web help. The extruded cut command is examined in detail in this tutorial. Hi all this has been bugging me for a while now and i am now looking for some help. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Every so often i get a support call because a solidworks user is experiencing a loss of functionality. In this tutorial you will discover how to model an amazing yacht in solidworks.