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Converting to a mesh body

Converting to a mesh body - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Converting to a mesh body

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- [Instructor] For this trick, I want to show you how to convert a mesh body. Now, this is really just kind of going over this tool, but these tools haven't been covered in a lot of other things. So we're going to take the opportunity in the tips and tricks series to really kind of dive into some of the new tools for working with meshes. So right over here, I've got this bunny I want to import in under options. I'm going to just choose the Graphics Body option, click okay, and then open that up. I'm going to choose a template, click okay. It's going to go ahead and bring in this graphic body, you can see right over here is the graphic body. But you can't really do much with this besides just select it. You can't do anything beyond that. So what we need to do is we need to convert this thing over to a mesh body. So, I have this tool which is right here, click on Convert to Mesh Body, select this body here, click on the…

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