From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
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Boundary boss and base - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
Boundary boss and base
- The boundary base/boss feature is a little bit of a hybrid and very similar to a lofted feature. To get started I have a rectangle that I drew here, and that can be just about any shape you want. Then I'm going to click on the front plane, and go ahead and start a sketch. Click normal too. And I'm going to use the Spline tool, and I'm going to create a spline from up here, and just make a few points here. And then what I want to do is I want to take one of those points, and I want to snap that point. Holding down Control, select the point, and select the line of my original shape, and click on Pierce, put those together. And then I'm going to adjust my spline so that it works through that point. Alright, there's my first curve. Exit out of that sketch. Now I'm going to go over to the right plane, and again start a sketch. Also going to be using a spline. And this time here I'm going to make a spline that's a little bit taller. And just a very gentle curve, and then again I'm going…
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