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Guided curves - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Guided curves

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- [Instructor] In this example, let's go ahead and talk about some guide curves. So, what I've got up here on the screen is a spline showing this line over here, from one point here over to the over point over here. And then, over here on the side, if you look at the front plane, if I look normal to that, that's giving my elevation profile. So, it's starting at this elevation here and it's kind of getting a little bit bigger. It looks like a tangent relationship here showing how big our shape wants to be. So, this is the information we've been given from the beginning and we need to create some type of a morphing shape that uses this as a guide and then it changes profile from here to here. So, they're looking for an oval at either side. So, the first thing that I need to do is create some guides. So, notice over here we've got sketch number one. If I open up that sketch, what I can use is the offset entity command, so…

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