Jump to content

Zero thickness geometry when extruding


Akitirija

Recommended Posts

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

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...