From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Mesh Tools
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Move Face
- [Instructor] Another feature that comes in handy a lot is the move face feature. For this particular example, I'm going to take this face, and move it up. I'm going to go to insert, face, move, with that face selected, and you'll notice here I get the XYZ crosshairs. Now I can grab this face and sink it in farther, or I can pull it out in the other direction. Let's see what I get here. I go from having a cut, to now having a boss coming out of that feature. I can just as easily go back and adjust that and go in, and cut into it deeper. Now you'll notice though, it didn't move down any of the features that are related to it, so this hole for example, didn't move in and cut deeper in. We just literally moved that face down. Now you can also do things like rotating faces. So we're going to try that real quick. Go to face, move, we're going to select this face, and this face, and that one, and we are going to rotate that. Oop, we need an axis. That's what we forgot. So we're going to…
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