From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Create a plane on the end of line

Create a plane on the end of line - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Create a plane on the end of line

- [Instructor] For this weeks tip, we're going to be focusing on creating planes at the end of line segments. Now, anytime you're going to be working with a Swept profile, you're going to need a profile and a path. So, most time, the path is already defined like we have here on the screen but you might need to define where that profile is. Now, if you're lucky enough, you might have a plane, like this front plane right here, which happens to be right at the very end of one of your line segments. And if I start to sketch on that plane, I can easily draw out something like a circle like this guy here. You can see now that that is right at the end of that line segment. However, what if you've got a line segment that is not ending on a plane? Well, you might need to actually create a plane at the end of a line and that can be a little bit tricky but let me show you a really quick and easy trick to do that very easily. So, we're going to come up here to the Features and come over here to…

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