From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training

Direct Editing: Split - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training

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Direct Editing: Split

- [Instructor] The Split command, can allow me to take an individual body. Slice it into a couple different parts. Operate on one of those parts and then later, we can use the Combine command to bring things back together. So let me show you how it works. Right over here, I want to use the Split Command and which is right up here. Under the Direct editing tool bar. Click on that. My Trim tool wants to be this sketch right there. And I'm going to use that to cut that body. And notice I get two different bodies here. And make sure down here at the bottom. I you're just checking all the boxes. Make sure everything's good. Click 'OK', we need to make sure we're specifying the bodies that they are. So we do want both of those. Click 'OK' and there it is. All right, so now we split it up. And you can see we've got two different bodies. This one here, and that one there. So, I want to hide the outside one. So I'm not working with that one right now. And now I want to do something to this inside body. So I'm going to create a pattern on the top. So, I'm a start a sketch and I'm going to come in here with a polygon. Which is a six sided hexagon. And lets just draw that one out. And lets go ahead and just create a horizontal size there. Add a dimension of one inch. I'm sorry point five inches. Half an inch. There it is and now exit out. Now I need a couple of directions. So I need one more little sketch here and what I'm going to do, is click on that top surface there, create a sketch. And I'm just going to make a line going this direction as well as one going up like that. So I can define how I want to pattern this around. Now lets exit out. And you can see what I have. Okay, so now what I want to do is take that original sketch and I want to cut that into my parts. So Cut I'm going to type in point one. Click on 'OK' and there's my very first cut. Then what I want to do is pattern that around, all over this surface here. And I can do that under Pattern. And I'm going to try this one called Fill pattern. Which is a really powerful way to pattern something around. Now my fill boundary. Is going to be this outside edge. And my fill direction, you can type in here As my first pattern direction I'm going to go ahead and choose in that box there that first line. And notice what happens. It just automatically grapes that shape and it starts filing in as many as it can into that area. Now my spacing, lets move that down to point five. Ah that might be a little bit to tight. Lets push that back up. Lets try point six. Ah a little more. Lets go to point seven. Okay that looks pretty good. All right we got a good pattern. Now also, we want this pattern to extend pass the edge. Right cause it kind of looks a little funky here. Like you got some stuff here that looks good. But out here it doesn't. So, lets go ahead and change this boundary. Here's our margin. I want to put a negative value in here. So it extends pass the edge. That looks a little cleaner. All right, I like that. And then over here under Angle. We can also change the Angle of this right? See if that can't get a little bit tighter. And we can play with some things here to see how we want it to look. We can also change the methodology for how we're going to control it. So that's the circular one. Or this one is another linear one. Here is another Polygon method. So there's a whole bunch of ways we can pattern this around. Lets go back to that very first. So there's my pattern. It looks pretty good. You've got a certain amount of controls down here we can also play with. You can also pattern bodies and things like that. But once you have that pattern looking good. Go ahead and click on 'OK'. What that's going to do is, it's going to cut all those little shapes into this body. And I want to make sure that my other body isn't affected. If you can show that one here you can see that it's not. Because now when I turn those back on or combine them back together I haven't added that pattern here. So it's a really great way to like mold a piece of plastic or something like that and you want to leave a border around the outside. Or piece of foam. This is how you can do it. Now lets go ahead and add these back together. Come over here to Direct editing. Come over here to Combine, go to Add and I want to combine these two bodies. Click 'OK' and now we're back to having one combine body. Looking pretty good. So, that's a quick and easy way to split your part into multiple pieces, do some operation to the individual piece. And then go back and combine the two parts back together so you have one part at the end of the day.

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