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Direct Editing: Split

Direct Editing: Split - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Direct Editing: Split

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- [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, which is right up here under the direct editing toolbar. 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, you're just checking all the boxes. Make sure everything's good click. Click okay. We need to make sure we're specifying the bodies that are there. So we do want both of those. Click okay, and there it is. Alright, so now we split it up and you can see we've got two different bodies. So this one here and that one there. So I want to hide the outside one. So I'm not working…

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