In constructing basic plastic parts out of "normal" solids in drafted plastic parts, the condition frequently ocurrs where a face in one place needs to extrude toward another solid perpendicular to a plane, and that plane is usually the parting line of the part.
The issue with Solidworks, is Extrude can only be done perpendicular to the "plane" for the sketch. Why?
The typical situation is the extrusion of a round face at an angle to the parting line with draft directly in the direction of pull to the parting line. It is not possible to extrude from the correct shape at the parting line to an angled circle (ellipse) with draft.
Am I all wrong on this? Or have I totally, totally missed a feature that allows this?
Sure seems like to me that any sketch ought to be extrudable either perpendicular to the sketch or perpendicular to some other plane. Like what's the big deal? It is just a geometry calculation, which I am sure that the SolidWorks programmers do all the time.
Venting a bit -- Bo