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Direct editing: Combine

Direct editing: Combine - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Direct editing: Combine

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- [Instructor] In this example, we're going to be looking at the Direct Editing toolbar. And we're going to be looking at the Combine command. And here it is, right up here, and notice it's grayed out. And that is because we only have one solid body at this point in time. We need to have multiple solid bodies in order to use the Combine command. So let's go ahead and create another body. So I have this sketch right here and I'm going to use a Revolved feature, so let's go up to Features, and click on Revolved. Choose the center edge right here, and click OK. But notice, I have the option of creating a merge result. And I don't want to do that, I want to turn that off. Click OK, and now I have one body sitting on top of the other one. And we have a kind of a funny lookin' shape here. But it's going to illustrate very well, what we're trying to do. So notice we now have a Solid Bodies folder, inside of there I've got this one here and I've got that one there. Just sitting on top of each…

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