Inverted pocket

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geek emeritus
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Inverted pocket

Post by geek emeritus »

I am trying beginner stuff. I managed to get a pocket in a box, but I draw the rectangle for the pocket on top, and when I hit OK, no pocket shows up on top. Flip it over and there's the pocket, on the bottom. How is this possible?
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GeneFC
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Re: Inverted pocket

Post by GeneFC »

The sketch is on the "bottom", specifically the x-y plane. There is only one way the pocket can form from there.

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I do not know what you tried to do, but the sketch is not on the "top".

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Re: Inverted pocket

Post by chrisb »

What you uploaded has no inverted sketch and the pocket is not reverted either. Yet the pocket works.

If you have a bit more experience, you should refrain from attaching sketches to faces, see this page, especially the paragraph about creating stable models.
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