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These fins are supposed to stop at the rim, but one side just keeps going. Is this an error in the source file, or did I do something wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you open up Extrude 8 they have defined the areas of the sketch that are extruded by selecting the areas they want to extrude under "Profiles". Looks like changing dimensions causes it to lose the reference and it needs to be re-selected.

Other than that, your ribs look like they aren't linked to another dimension and when you changed the size of the area they are now broken because they are too short.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ow my ribs.

But for real thanks! I'll take a look when I sit back down at my windows computer. As far as I know, I didn't change any of the dimensions that would have affected the fins like that... Maybe I changed the wrong parameter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Extrude to a surface, not to a distance. That way if you do resize anything, it all resizes together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I ended up just printing it as is and snapping off the little piece.