From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
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Hollow out the model using the shell feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
Hollow out the model using the shell feature
- [Instructor] We've now made most of the controller outer shape. If we look at a cross-section view of our controller, we can see it's completely solid all the way through. And we don't want that, because we need to fit things inside here: the circuit board, buttons, and so on. So we need to find a way to somehow hollow out this controller, and you can do this using the shell feature. This can be found on the features tab. Select the shell feature. And here on the left, firstly, we need to set the wall thickness. So let's set this as two millimeters, and then this is the faces to remove box. So any faces that you put into this selection box will be removed from the model, and then the rest of the solid connected to them will be shelled out, or hollowed out, to this two millimeter wall thickness. But in this case, we actually want a completely enclosed shape. So we don't want to remove any faces. So you don't need…
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Create the initial controller shape5m 22s
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Sketch loft profiles for a handgrip8m 5s
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Use lofts to make a flowing grip6m 4s
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Smooth the controller grip using fillets2m 58s
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Add the second half using mirroring3m 47s
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Add button and joystick pads6m 7s
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Hollow out the model using the shell feature2m 57s
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