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Boundary Boss/Base

Boundary Boss/Base - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Boundary Boss/Base

- [Instructor] The boundary boss base command is not as common as a regular extrude or revolve feature. However, it's extremely powerful. And it's similar to both a sweep as well as a loft. So let me show you what I have on the screen here, I just have a basic circle. And if I take a look at that sketch, I've got a circle a certain distance from the origin. And now if I exit out of that, I want to grab a new plane that's perpendicular to the one I'm working on. So right here, the front plane is perpendicular to what I started with. And let's go ahead and create a sketch on that plane, I want to start with a short line segments. So I'm not going to try to snap over here to that shape, I'm going to just go a little distance away from that, click once, click again, where you want to stop and then escape out of that. So I have one little short line segment. And then what I want to do is grab the tangent arc, and I'm going to start…

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