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Question 4: Mirror surfaces and create solid

Question 4: Mirror surfaces and create solid - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Question 4: Mirror surfaces and create solid

- [Instructor] For question four, the sample exam, they're asking us to complete the solid, then apply a material of ABS. And to do that we need a mirror over the existing surfaces, and then create the steps to finally create a full solid, apply the material, and then weigh it. Okay, so right up here is what the final part should look like. Should have a flat face here, a flat bottom, and then just use a mirror of that top surface. Let's head over to SolidWorks and see how we can make that happen. So right over here, let's go ahead and take a look and see, right here is the front plane, that's a good one to mirror over. So go to features. Come over here to mirror. The bodies we want to mirror is that entire body. Mirror it over the front plane, click OK, there we got it. And let's go ahead and knit those together. So surfaces, knit, grab that body and that body there, knit them together, so now we have…

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