I have just completed a model for a sheet-metal part that has been
extruded to a dimension of .030" thick , it has a snowflake design
pierced out of the center, and has several protrusions that are bent
up at angles, etc., around the outer edge. I now need to use the
same sketch that forms the profile of this model and I need to extrude
it the opposite way (into a female extrusion), and I want to know how
to salvage the original sketch so that I do not have to do it all over
again. Solidworks must have made allowances for something like this
situation. If I roll back the design tree to the original extrusion,
and go to edit the sketch, I cannot exit the sketch to extrude it the
way I want to, because when I exit the sketch, it reverts back to
the extruded model. I even tried to delete all the steps that were
taken back to the original extrusion, in hopes that I could do what I
want to do with it then do a save as to something other than what it
is now named.
I am hoping that someone here with more experience at Solidworks than
I do, (which is not a whole lot), will give me a clue as to a
procedure that I must use to salvage this sketch, and bring it into a
newly named part.
I am thanking that person/persons in advance.
Ben