** The Section dialog box will reflect these selections.

You can change the sketching plane or the reference plane by simply reselecting them in the main graphics window. Sketching plane first and reference plane second. **

** Select the Sketch button from the Section dialog box to enter into sketcher mode. ** There are a few new Sketcher icons for wildfire. They are for the line, circle and arc functions. Create lines tangent to 2 entities

Create a circle tangent to 3 entities

Create a circle by picking its 3 points

Create an arc tangent to 3 entities

The complete set of Sketcher icons and the Sketch menus for Wildfire are shown below next to the icons and Sketch menu from 2001.

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Wildfire

2001

The Options selection under the Sketch menu for Wildfire replaces the old Sketch Preferences command that was under the Utilities menu. Other than that the sketcher environment hasnt changed too much. ** Sketch a circle with a diameter of 10 as shown below and select the Check icon from the Sketcher toolbar. This will return you to the Dashboard menu. Remember to take advantage of the right mouse button pop up menu functionality while in sketcher. It has also been updated to include new functionality throughout. **

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** Select the Extrude as solid icon from the Dashboard menu. **

** Select the depth value icon from the Dashboard menu to be Extrude on both sides of the sketch plane by half of the specified dept value and enter a depth value of 5. **

** The Change depth direction icon from the Dashboard menu to doesnt affect this feature since we are extruding from both sides. The Remove Material icon is grayed out since we are creating a protrusion. Leave the Thicken icon unselected for the same reason. **

** Your sketch should now look like the figure below. **

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