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Find/Modify utility

Find/Modify utility - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Find/Modify utility

- [Narrator] When you're trying to make changes to large groups of similar features at the same time it might be useful to take advantage of the find modify utility. This gives you the ability to find sets of features in a part that satisfy specific parameter conditions and then you can edit them all at once. So let's look, for example, just for some bosses inside of this geometry. I'm going to go up to tools, down to find modify and then I'm going to select find modify features. You can see here in the task pane in the right we now get the find modify features tab created and it gives us a bunch of options here in the drop down. So the first thing is you can match to a specific feature so if I wanted to select this cut and find other features that match similarly to it based on feature parameters or a volume tolerance, we can. We can also delete that out and search categorically by bosses, for example. And I'm going to look for a specific feature of a boss extrude but you can see…

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