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Direct Editing: Combine

Direct Editing: Combine - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Direct Editing: Combine

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- [Instructor] The combine command is a great direct editing tool and we've used it a little bit in some previous videos already. So let me show you all the details on how to use that command. The first thing I need to do is have two separate bodies. So what I want to do here is, I want to take this sketch here and I want to create a revolve. So, go over here to features, and come over here to revolve, and I want to revolve that around this axis here, so I'm creating another shape, directly on top, here. And then we want to make sure we're not merging the results together. We want two separate bodies. We don't want these to become one thing, so go ahead and uncheck merge result. Click on OK and now you can see we've got one body directly on the inside of this other body here. So under this solid body's folder you can see I've got body number one, and I've got body number two. And now we can use the direct editing toolbar, and we can jump over here to direct editing and come over here…

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