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Direct editing: Move face

Direct editing: Move face - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Direct editing: Move face

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- [Instructor] The move face command is another great direct editing tool and let me show you how it works. Now, I've got a part here, and the problem is we don't have enough material here, so what I'd really like to do is take all these features here and just kind of move it up, add some more material. Now, of course we could go back and change the original features. I could find this one here or find the original sketch, maybe this one up here, which is obviously a circle, so that doesn't really make it very easy. I'm trying to sort through the design to see how this part was created, and you can see there's a lot going on in this part, and it looks like there's maybe a couple different revisions. They've kind of cut things away, they've added things. It's really not that great of a part to start with. It looks like they've really made a few different modifications and you've got a lot of extra features here you just don't need, so going back and changing the original features can…

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