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Shell - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Shell

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- [Instructor] The Shell command is a very easy way to create a hollow part. What it does is create a uniform wall thickness, whatever you determine, and then makes that your wall thickness throughout the inside of the part, and the command will remove certain faces that we select. To get into the Shell command, let's go up to Features, come over here to Shell, and click on that one. Notice my defined wall thickness here is 10 millimeters. I'm going to change that down to two millimeters, but it doesn't really matter. And then choose, over here, which faces I want to remove. Now, I don't actually have to remove any faces, so let's just try it like that, as I click on OK. And there it is, completely shelled. Well, it doesn't look any different, right? But if we go ahead and we cut it in half, using Section View, you can see there actually has been this material removed from the inside. And it's a uniform wall thickness. Everything is exactly the same, and now I have a hollow bottle…

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