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Draft Analysis

Draft Analysis - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Draft Analysis

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- [Instructor] The Draft Analysis tool is pretty much an indispensable tool if you're doing any type of molding operation. Whether it's injection molding, die casting, or anything else that requires draft, Draft Analysis tool is really going to help us out. It's pretty straightforward and easy to use, go ahead and click on Draft Analysis under the Evaluate toolbar. Click on that one. Over here as far as the Direction of Pull you can choose an individual face, however I would prefer to choose one of the original planes. And I'm going to choose the top plane here and notice the direction of the pull has shown up right here. And it just kind of colors our model for us, showing what has positive draft, what has negative draft and what requires draft. And our criteria is right over here, three degrees. So if I change that value to two degrees, nothing really changes, but if I go all the way down here to zero degrees notice some of the stuff changes. If I change it up to one degree, I'm…

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