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I am trying to learn how to project geometry in inventor 2013 to cut down how much work I am putting into my project and getting frustrated with it. The issue I am having is that when I project geometry from one side to another side it projects it to the same side instead of projecting it to the side I am working on. I will try to explain exactly step by step on my process so you might be able to see where I am going wrong. here is a sample file that I am using to learn with, without projections attempt [ATTACH]40722[/ATTACH] Here is how I have created this. 1. I created sketch1 on xz plane. 2. I extruded it to 4 ft using surface extrusion 3. selected front face of the extrusion and sketched my line and constraints as you can see in attachment. OK now I am wanting to project all my sketched lines from the front surface to the right surface, so I select create sketch and select the right surface and it brings up the correct surface to work on; Now here is where it goes horribly wrong for me. Here is what I am doing now I am not sure if it is a configuration or something I am doing wrong so if you do the same thing as i do and it works the way its intended then I suppose it is in my configuration settings but if you have same issue then i am doing something wrong. 1. I click on created sketch and the surface to create sketch on (for this example the right surface of extrusion). 2. I click on project geometry. 3. I click on the items to project. This is exactly where it goes wrong for me. Instead of it projecting to the surface I am working on it is projecting to the same surface I want projected from. This only happens on the right or left surfaces and it works correctly when I do the same steps as above but instead of working on the either the right surface or left surface I work on the back surface . Wow that was long and drawn out some what and I am sorry for that I am just not sure what I am doing wrong so I tried to recreate step by step so as to help someone help me with this.