About the Depth Options

Specify the depth of an extruded feature by selecting one of the following depth options:

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Blind—Extrudes a section from the sketching plane to the specified depth value.

Specifying a negative depth value flips the depth direction.

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Symmetric—Extrudes a section on each side of the sketching plane by half of the specified depth value.

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To Next—Extrudes a section to the next surface of a solid. Use this option to terminate a feature at the first surface of a solid that it reaches.

You cannot use a datum plane as a terminating surface.

This option is not available in Assembly mode.

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Through All—Extrudes a section to intersect with all surfaces. Use this option to terminate a feature at the last surface it reaches.

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Through Until—Extrudes a section to intersect with a selected surface. For a terminating surface, you can select a surface of a solid, which is not required to be planar.

This option is not available in Assembly mode.

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To Selected—Extrudes a section to a selected point, curve, plane, or surface, or to an offset or a translation of a point, curve, plane, or surface.

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—Extrudes to a selected point, curve, plane, or surface.

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—Extrudes to an offset of a selected point, curve, plane, or surface.

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—Extrudes to a translation of a selected point, curve, plane, or surface.

▪ Value box—Sets an offset or translation distance value when the extrude option is

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—Flips the direction of the offset or translation when the extrude option is

You can snap to any valid entity with the To Selected option. Hold down the SHIFT key and drag the depth handle until you reach a reference to use for the feature depth. When the reference is highlighted, release the handle.

Rules for Terminating Features Using the Part Entities

• For the

Through Until and

To Next depth options, the outline of the extrusion must lie within the boundaries of the terminating surface.

• Features that terminate at the intersection with another entity do not have a depth parameter associated with them. Modifying the terminating surface alters the depth of the feature.

Tips for Changing the Depth Options Using Snapping

You can use snapping to the nearest reference to change the depth option from

Blind to

To Selected. Hold down SHIFT and drag the depth handle to a reference to use to terminate the feature.

You can change the depth option back to

Blind by holding down SHIFT and dragging the depth handle. As you drag the handle, the depth dimension is displayed.