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Add ribs to the rear half

Add ribs to the rear half - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Add ribs to the rear half

- [Instructor] The next thing that we're going to add to our controller model is some ribs. And ribs are common on all sorts of products, especially plastic ones. And they're generally used to add a bit more strength to the main shell of the model. In our case, we're going to have three that are roughly horizontal and then five that are more vertical. And to get started, let's open the bottom half of the controller. Select the top face of one of the standoffs and start a sketch, and then go to a normal T view. So we're looking down from the top. And we can now use the line tool to start drawing the ribs. Firstly, we want one down the middle of the controller. So zoom in and hover over this inside edge and pick up that point, and draw a line vertically down to this inside edge. And then we'll draw one more about here. So start from this inside face, go all the way down to this inside face. Make sure that this line is…

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