Extruded Cut SW2008

Hello everyone. I'm new to SW and have been working through the
tutorials as well as doing some simple drawings of my own. Can anyone
explain to me how to do an extruded cut at an angle (not
perpendicular) to the top face of a piece of plate. Thanks.

 

What Wayne suggest is generally the best practice because with his
suggestion you aren't on the hook for calculating the correct
foreshortening of your extrusion profile as it is extruded over the
angle.

But sometimes, that is not an issue. If Wayne's suggestion doesn't
give you what you want, you can use the box just below extrusion 'end
condition' to pick a direction for the extrusion to go ( a setting I
use maybe twice a year). When i do it I like to just use a sketch
line to specify the direction, though you can go through extra steps
to make a plane or an axis for the extrusion direction.

Since you are new, I want to offer the following suggestion: please
describe in detail what you want to end up with, not what you think
you want to do. For instance, if you want to drill a hole at an angle
to a plate, you HAVE to use Wayne's suggestion since my suggestion
will create an elliptical hole in the parts (unless you are really
clever and want to do the work to appropiately foreshorten the
profile). Wayne's suggestion will create a round hole like in real
manufacturing.

Again, since you are new, I want to offer the following advice: When
using SolidWorks, the best mental excercise is to think of how the
part is made, then model it using features that mimic how that part is
actually made. I spent a lot of time in a pattern making shop before
getting on SolidWorks so I was able to make the transition very easily
because I just thought of SWx as my shop, and as a result I am quite
good with SolidWorks really quick.
And when you have questions, ask them relating to production
processes, not modelling processes.
Ed
P.S. Yes, there are exceptions (crazily organic parts), but in
general, think of SWx as a machine shop and model things you want like
you would make them in a shop