Posted: 21 October 2008 at 2:31am | IP Logged

Use the offset tool. And use "offset with draft feature" to create this.

//Tobias

Posted: 21 October 2008 at 6:13am | IP Logged

ahh... ok, sorry  

Well... first, pick the surf to offset (so that it turns pink) , then "edit-offset" and choose "offset with draft feature"

Then you create a sketch to be the area to offset. You can either go normal to the sketch or to the surf. Play around whit the options 

On last little thing, with this feature, you cant offset/extrude a text (its greyed out?!?!? atleast in WF3)  if you want to do this , then first create a sketch (with your text) and then in the "offset feature sketch"....use "use edge" (or , "create an entity from an edge " like they call it nowadays, haha) 

Maybe its clearer if you look at my modelltree in my post above... sktech 1 is the "mcad" text, and offset1 is the.....offset  (with draft feature)

//Tobias

Posted: 22 October 2008 at 1:46am | IP Logged

if you click once at the surface, (the part becoms "red wireframe" ) then move away from the surf/part...and then back and pick the surface again... it becomes pink.

(or else you can do as cnachane described and change the smart filter...)

//Tobias