Extrude Cut

Introduction

The Extrude Cut function removes material from solid bodies by extruding closed wireframe chains or planar surface geometry to the specified distance and subtracts the result from any intersecting solid or surface bodies. When using a surface, the software automatically extracts the edges of the surface to use for the cut.

TIP: Extrude Cut is applied to all intersecting bodies in the file, unless they are hidden using the View menu Blank function. Hiding a layer does not exclude the entities on that layer from being used in Extrude Cut.

Dynamic Drawing

Extrude Cut supports Dynamic Drawing which allows you to use sketch handles to modify the extrusion distance, which can also be defined using data entry. The benefit of Dynamic Drawing is that you can use the sketch handles to roughly define the extrusion and then use data entry to accurately update the distance as needed.

To learn more about Dynamic Drawing, view Dynamic Drawing for Solids.

Snap Increment

Extrude Cut supports the use of the snap increment when using the sketch handles to set the distance values. The snap increment allows you to get precise results when using mouse selection and helps to reduce data entry modifications.

To learn more, view Snap Increment.

Navigation

To open Extrude Boss, do one of the following:

In the Solids menu, click Extrude Cut.

On the Solids toolbar, click the icon.

Right-click anywhere in the Workspace, point to CAD, Solids, and click Extrude Cut.

The parameters display in the Data Entry tab of the Data-CAM Tree Manager.

The Data Entry Parameters

Positive Direction

Distance - sets the distance of the extrusion from the selected geometry in the positive direction. You can use dynamic sketch handles or data entry to set this value. The snap increment applies to the distance value when using sketch handles.
Draft Angle - creates an angle along the edge of the extruded shape in the positive direction. This also applies to any internal shapes when you select more than one curve to extrude. This can be a positive or negative value.

Other Direction

Distance - sets the distance of the extrusion from the selected geometry in the negative direction. You can use dynamic sketch handles or data entry to set this value. The snap increment applies to the distance value when using sketch handles.
Draft Angle - creates an angle along the edge of the extruded shape in the negative direction. This also applies to any internal shapes when you select more than one curve to extrude. This can be a positive or negative value.

Along Normal - the extrusion occurs parallel to the normal direction of the plane created by the selected curve.
Along Z-Axis - the extrusion direction is the Z-axis regardless of how the selected curve is oriented.

Show Preview / Hide Preview

Once geometry has been added to the Selected Geometry list, selecting this toggle will enable, and disable the CAD preview, which displays the result that will be created when you click OK.

OK - performs the function to create the geometry as shown in the CAD preview.
Cancel - closes the Data Entry Manager.

Quick Steps - Extrude Cut

1 Open the function and define all Data Entry parameters.

2 Select geometry in the Workspace.

This can be closed wireframe chains or planar surface geometry. When using a surface, the software automatically extracts the edges of the surface to use for the cut.

3 Click (OK) to confirm the selection and create the CAD preview.

You can modify the snap increment value or turn it off if you are using sketch handles.

If needed, use the dynamic sketch handles or data entry to update the CAD preview.