How to apply extrusion along normal to a Dwire?

[bitacovir]

it does work normally for me here... Are you sure the "Snap to Working Plane" button is off? That might be the problem...

I'm doing it this way. what is wrong?

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OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.14061 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: c4fc02cbcfff975712e977dc08f859fba71ba0ad
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: English/Australia (en_AU)

[bitacovir]

Some more workarounds.

* Part Compound the DWire.
OR
* Part 2D offset the DWire with zero value

dwire-extrude-normal.FCStd

Thanks, these are good suggestions. Not very intuitive but they resolve the problem. Still, I hope developers can restore the extrusion along normal for closed Dwires at some moment at the future.

Ok. Here there is another way.
* Draft Trim/Extend tool
If the closed Dwire is in any position you can apply Draft Trim/Extend the face and the extrusion goes at the normal direction of the face.
If the closed Dwire is in the XY orientation you need Draft Trim, and then Z key to extrude the face at the Z direction.

EDIT: here there is more information about the "mysterious case of the missing normal"
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29490

[yorik]

Hm indeed DeepSOIC is right in that other thread. The Draft Wire should be fixed. I'll look at how to do that.