solid works help needed

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Originally Posted by edomus

I imported extrustion from www.firstcadlibary.com into solidworks. Is there a way to elongate a part once it is extruded or do I have to mate all of the small parts together to get the length that I want. Thanks

To really answer this question I would need to actully know what your background and/or experience is in Solidworks, and what the part actually was..

But.. to take a shot in the dark so to speak, I am guessing that you have a part you brought in and it came in at a fixed length and you would like to make it longer (or shorter - that will work too).

What you want to do is click on the end of the part, and start a new sketch on that plane.

Then you can use the "convert entities" button in SolidWorks (looks like a little cube with all black lines except for one red line - it is on the "sketch tools" toolbar in case you don't have that showing) and select all the individual (or one large if that is the case) lines that make up the profile.
What that allows you to do is then, use that profile as your "new" sketch.
And then all you have to do is either make an cut-extrude to shorten it, or a boss-extrude to lengthen the part.

Hope this helps.