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Converting solid, surface, or graphics bodies to mesh

Converting solid, surface, or graphics bodies to mesh - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Converting solid, surface, or graphics bodies to mesh

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- [Instructor] Converting existing solid surfaces or graphic bodies to a mesh file are pretty straight forward. Here, I've got a solid piece of geometry from one of the other examples that we have. If I go up to Insert, Features, and Convert to Mesh Body, this brings up the Convert to Mesh Body property manager. Simply put, I'm just going to select this body, and then, it's automatically going to start dividing it up into a mesh. If I want, I can keep the original body or hide the original body, keep and hide it, or I can just keep it and show it. I'm going to keep it and hide it, and then, here we go down to mesh refinement. So, we can go Coarse or Fine, and you can see how that adds more points and lines to our mesh. We can also drop down to the Advanced Mesh Refinement, and adjust things like the deviation or the maximum angle between them. By reducing or increasing these things, you can see that it'll have an effect on the mesh and what it looks like and where things are spaced…

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