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Creating Extruded Features | 271
2 Use AMPROFILE to create a profile from the sketch.
Context Menu In the graphics area, right-click and choose Sketch Solving
Single Profile.
Mechanical Desktop analyzes the sketch, redraws it, and displays this
message:
Solved underconstrained sketch requiring 10 dimensions or constraints.
NOTE If your sketch needs more than 10 dimensions or constraints to solve
the sketch, you probably need some tangency and constraints. Look for sharp
discontinuities between the fillets and the lines they join. You make these correc-
tions when you constrain the sketch to the base feature.
3 Look at the Desktop Browser. The profile you just created is represented as
Profile2.
Because you have not extruded the profile, it is not consumed by a feature.
Therefore, the Browser shows that Profile2 is aligned at the same level in the
hierarchy as ExtrusionBlind1.
Because you added this feature to the base feature, you need to constrain
its
shape and size and then constrain it to the existing part.
Constraining Sketches
To constrain a sketch, first you add and change geometric constraints to
create the shape of the bracket and to define its symmetry about the two
centerlines formed by the work plane and the work axis. Then you dimen-
sion the sketch to maintain the proper length and width.
NOTE Dont be concerned if your sketch appears to be misshapen compared
to the illustrations. Constraining the sketch to the base feature will correct its
shape.