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Ruled surface creation

Ruled surface creation - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Ruled surface creation

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- The ruled surface is a pretty cool command and it has multiple different ways it can be used, let me show you how it works. Right over here, I've got what looks kind of like a potato chip, or like one of those like Pringles. So, I've got a couple different inflection points here that's showing and this is give a good example of how we can use a ruled surface. So, click over here under ruled surface and my tangent to surface is my very first style of ruled surface and I can choose something like an edge, if I choose this edge right here, and notice what happens is it just kind of almost like extends that surface out cause it's tangent to it. So, as it follows it all around. So, it's one cool option and then you can just define the distance you want. Normal to surface is going to be pushing that down and following that, so it's always going to be normal directly from that. So it's coming out this way but it's pushing…

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