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Split solid body

Split solid body - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Split solid body

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- [Instructor] In this example, we're going to be splitting a solid body to get some data from it. So right over here, I've got this dog bowl we created. We thickened it. And now my question is, or actually the problem we have to solve is we want to know how much water goes in the bowl. Right, we want it to deliver a certain amount of water for a certain size dog. So in this case, what we want to do is we want to build this bowl full of water. And to do that, we can use a few different surface modeling tools. The first one's going to be that Offset Surface tool. So head over here to Surfaces. Click on the Offset Surface tool. Which is right here, click on that one there. And choose that bottom edge. Choose this one here, that one there, and that one there. Right, so that's going to go all the way to the top. Right, but I don't want to offset it 10 millimeter, I just want to make a zero offset. I want that right there…

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