Hi- are you sure you have selected all the edges in the second case?
<<<Thanks for your quick response, Daniel. Yes; I went one by one –
several times. This is brutally simple. In the Extrude case, click on an
edge to select, the display does not show 1 edge selected. It is only after
the 2nd edge is selected, that the display shows 1 edge. If you don’t see
this then I will make a movie for the experience value.
To be more simple, is a square shape pulled to a body, the same exact body
– if it were extruded (given same dimensions)?
Viewing some of the newbie questions/problems, I think that it would be a
good idea to have a Learning / Design Approach guide or white paper.
In my case, I first looked and listened; at all the videos everywhere (at
least twice). Read everything in the forum. Then, on some long airplane
flights, I just worked with every tool and function – often copying the
example. I used a crazy monkey with a shotgun approach. In doing this with
the beta, in fact, I saw several of the bugs later mentioned and fixed. I
didn’t say anything. Sorry! After all, I was just the crazy monkey… From
35 years of software experience, it is always good to have a crazy monkey
on your team.
Not sure if this was mentioned, is that the axes colors get mixed up from
time to time when objects are being transformed. Not sure if I can
reproduce but am sure it happened.
I have now started on a real project; creating a holder for a set of 3
sizes of inexpensive ceramic knives. This is a test project for an bigger,
professional project.
The holder is loosely inspired by this design which I intend to print on my
new Tevo Tornado 3D printer that I bought myself for Christmas.
https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Belgravia-Black-Diamond-Knife/dp/B01977G5NM/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1514924699&sr=8-6&keywords=belgravia
Finding the modeling of a knife challenging with all the compound curves,
etc. But I only need it to be figuratively and dimensionally accurate. The
holder has to be exact because I will print it. I find that whenever I have
a problem with the model not working out like I want, I go to another
WorkSpace and try a brutally simple example and see if this works. Thus, my
question above… I think that it would be good advice for newbies to
consider following my approach and also to encourage them to model
something that has some interest/importance to them. This is critical as
they will have the motivation to go back and forth learning to acquire
experience.
A suggestion is to somehow make the Name of a WorkSpace displayable in the
true work space. When you are flipping between a design (with variations)
and lots of tests, you can easily lose track of where you are. I know how
to Rename a WorkSpace; the problem is to know what you are really working
on at the moment – especially in an environment where you are interrupted
a lot.
Keep up the excellent support.
Best,
Tom