Electrical Design > ECAD > Working With ECAD Assemblies > Creating and Modifying Board Segments > Creating Board Segments > To Create an Extruded Segment
To Create an Extruded Segment
1. Click Model > Extrude. The Extrude tab opens.
2. Make sure that for removing material is not selected.
3. Click Placement. The Placement tab opens.
◦ To edit an existing sketch, click Unlink to break the association with the sketch. An internal sketch is created using a copy of the sketch. Create a sketch and click OK.
◦ When a sketch does not exist, click Define and set references. Create a sketch and click OK.
4. Select a depth option and if required, set a value for each side.
5. To flip the depth direction, click .
6. To flip the material thickness direction, click .
7. Click Options. The Options tab opens. Select a Depth option and a value for each side, if required. Set the following board-specific options:
◦ Click Add bends on sharp edges to round sharp edges when the sketch includes nontangent geometry. Set the value of the radius and the location for dimensioning the radius.
◦ Click Set driving surface opposite sketch plane to flip the driving surface. Use this option when the segment is not a first segment.
◦ Click Merge to model to merge the segment with intersecting segments.
To keep the new segment edges from merging with existing intersecting segments, click Keep merged edges.
9. Click .
About the Extrude Tool