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pro desktop extruding

I am replicating a part for a vintage car electrical switch (jpg
attached) My design program is pro desktop. I am creating each
segment of the undulating top surface of the part by creating a
triangle, extruding it to a prism and then using the taper tool to
incline the surface toward the centre of the component. The taper
tool goes to a maximum of 60 degrees (indicated by an arrow on
explaining the problem jpg) my design needs a taper angle of 79
degrees to make the profile match the original part.
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simon walker said:
is it possible to have a taper on an extrusion greater than 60

degrees, and if it is then how?

The draft tool itself will not draft more than 30, strictly anything greater than 10/12 degrees is not a draft, at least not in moulding terms. If you want a draft on your feature you will need to consider building it another way. How depends entirely on what it is.

If you can, send a screenshot of what you are working on.
 

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