Where O where has my thicken have gone

[phoxeoy]

OK, could someone please tell me, in wildfire2, why when I make a sketch and goto sketch my feature tools are grayed out? I'm trying to do a thicken. I never had this problem with 2001. Nothing I seem to do will give me this option. Anybody?

 

[kimale]

Are you sure that you are in sheet metal mode?

 

[phoxeoy]

100%

 

[Brian_Adkins]

Are you skecthing an extruded wall, or did you accidentally pick the unattached flat wall icon?

 

[phoxeoy]

I'm skecthing a extruded wall. I'm not doing anything different than I did in 2001. Little puzzled at this

 

[Brian_Adkins]

Works great here... Except if you try to thicken a section where all entities are not tangent... but then you get a warning message.

 

[jfausch]

Its tough to tell exactly what is going on; can you post an image of your sketch?

 

[phoxeoy]

I have a hoizontal line then a radius then a line going up at a 30 degree angle. Then I goto Sketch-> and Feature Tools are grayed out. I know for Thicken to work you have to have a fillet or radius. I have this, It should not be grayed out like this. This freaken blows!

 

[jfausch]

In Wildfire the option to "thicken" is nowdone outside of sketcher. When you go into "extrude" select the "thicken" icon in your dashboardView attachment 1104

 

[jfausch]

Sorry, ignore my previous post (I missed the fact that you were in sheetmetal mode).


As someone else mentioned above make sure you are sketching an "extruded wall" and not a "flat wall." If you select the flat wall option you will not be able to thicken. When in an extruded wall the "thicken" option can also be accessed with a right click;


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