From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure
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Hollow out your part with the shell feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure
Hollow out your part with the shell feature
We need to find a way to hollow out this solid box. And to do this, we're going to use the Shell feature. We're going to open the enclosure parent part directly now in order to edit it. Often in solid works, it's just a little bit faster to open the part in editor instead of editing within the assembly. So to do this, all we need to do is select the part either in the parts tree or in the graphics area and then click on Open part, which is the first icon here. So now we're directly editing the enclosure parent part. Over here on the left, you can see we've got the main shape extruded feature. You can see next to it we've got this small arrow and that indicates that this feature has an external reference, and that means that this feature is linked to another part. In this case, that's the PCB part. To hollow out this block is pretty simple really, all we need to do is use one feature. So let's go to the Features tab and…
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Import an existing PCB file2m 56s
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Create an assembly using the PCB part2m 9s
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Insert a new part into the assembly4m 33s
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Use extrudes to create the main enclosure shape3m 21s
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Hollow out your part with the shell feature2m 32s
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Split the enclosure into two halves5m 33s
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Add the new parts to the assembly5m 46s
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