Extrude Part to Another Part??

Hi, this is driving me nuts!

I have two parts in an assembly, one is a basically a plate curved in two dimensions, the other is a simple cylindrical pipe. I want to extrude the pipe section up to the curved plate, so that one end of the pipe terminates on the plate and thus has a curvey end.

When I try creating the extrude feature in the pipe part, it won't let me select any faces of the curved plate part for termination of the extrusion.

In my work I really need to be able to use parts for terminating extrusions in other parts, but I can't figure out how!

Thanks for any help you can offer.

i know when extruding there is an intersect command but i do not know of a way to do what you are asking. you might have to go back and slice the end with a separate sketch. ill have to play around with this one for sure.

Look into derived parts. Or you can place both parts into an assembly and project the edge of the plate but this creates an adaptive part which is not (IMO) the best way to go.

I've found out that the best way to do it is to use the 'Copy Object' feature whilst editing the Pipe Part - using this I could copy any of the faces of the Plate Part into the Pipe Part as a surface, which I could then use as a 'To' boundary for the pipe extrusion (as the surface is actually within the Pipe Part).

Plus the copied surface remains linked to the Plate Part so if the plate geometry changes, the end of the Pipe Part will change to suit.

Thanks for your help.