Akitirija Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Hi everyone. I am having problems extruding the upper stair of the model. This is so frustrating, I feel that this is a problem that is a recurrent problem for me (Zero thickness geometry). This time I made all the stairs in one sketch, but I used the "Create Sketch from Selections" tool to make the upper stair a sketch of its own (specifically to avoid zero thickness geometry), and still it is happening. What am I doing wrong? stairs.pdf I am very grateful for any help or hints, also on how to avoid this in the future. stairs.SLDPRT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 I have seen this error with my students - but I am not getting the error with your file. Can you attach a screen shot while trying to create your first extrude-cut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akitirija Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 Of course, thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 I do not see any closed profile selected. Expand the Selected Contours at the bottom of that dialog box. If there is anything in it - right click and Delete, then click inside the profile you want to extrude-cut. Hmm, now on rebuild - I am getting error. I am seeing this a lot in SolidWorks - I recommend switching to Autodesk Inventor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akitirija Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 Thanks, Mather. After some while I managed it by doing the lower stairs first. I don't like it when I don't understand the logic, though. We have to use SolidWorks at the school, otherwise I would have changed to Inventor, as a lot of professionals recommend that now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 I will try to get to the root of this problem later today - my students keep seeing this same error in my SolidWorks class. Strange thing is - we never had this problem till this year in SWx 2014, but you are using earlier release. I thought it was a bug introduced in 2014 till I saw your file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akitirija Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 Thank you very much, Mather! I appreciate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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