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Revolve - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Revolve

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- To create revolve features, we want to make sure that we have a center line as well as a sketch. All it needs to be is one closed feature, goes all the way around, and we need a center line to revolve around. A couple things I want to point out while we're here. If you're adding dimensions to a drawing, I want to sometimes use what's called a double dimension that makes it a lot easier to input the exact values you might be getting from the exam. So to do that, so for instance, this is going to be 250 millimeter diameter, and not radius, so notice it goes as a double dimension. So I'm going to delete that for right now and go back. If I had to make a dimension from the top here to the bottom, it only gives me the option of the 125. But instead, if I were to give a dimension from the top to a center line, on this side here, it's 125, but as soon as I pass over the center line, notice it switches over to the double dimension, or the full diameter of that, so if I want the diameter…

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