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Direct Editing: Combine

Direct Editing: Combine - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Direct Editing: Combine

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- The Combine command is what I call a Boolean operator. It's going to allow us to add things together, subtract 'em, or find what is in common between two individual bodies. Now the problem is I only have one body so far so I have to create a secondary body, and I need it to not merge the two bodies together. So I have the sketch right over here. I'm going to go ahead and create a revolved feature. So here is my revolve. I'm going to go ahead and revolve around that center axis there and then make sure I uncheck this merge result. I don't want that to be combined together. I want two separate bodies. So now you can see I've got this body here and I've got that body there. So we have to have moldy bodies, obviously, to make this command work. Now over here under the direct editing toolbar we've got the combined command right over. We have three different options: we can add them together, we can subtract them, or…

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