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Surface tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2021 Essential Training
Surface tools
- [Instructor] SolidWorks has a great set of tools for working with surfaces. Now, I'm not going to be covering everything in the surfacing package, but I just want to give you a little teaser of some of the tools that are available. I actually have an entire course on SolidWorks surfacing if you're interested. But for right now, let's go ahead and turn on the surfacing toolbar. It is right up here under the regular tabs. Right click on any one of those and make sure you've got the surfaces toolbar turned on. And inside of there, you can see we've got a whole bunch of tools. So, the first tool I want to look at is this extruded surface. So extruded surface, I'm going to go ahead and choose a sketch. So I'm going to choose the sketch right here. And notice that I can just click on this and drag it out, right? Such as straight extrude very similar to a regular extrude, but instead of actually creating a solid, we…
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Loft tool9m 36s
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Lofted shapes with guide curves2m 20s
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Making lofted cuts2m 27s
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Creating swept shapes3m 52s
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Making swept cuts3m 32s
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Using the Wrap command2m 36s
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Boundary Boss/Base4m 4s
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Intersect tool4m 13s
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Working with configurations3m 46s
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Surface tools2m 54s
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Using surfaces to build solid models2m 41s
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Direct Editing: Move/Copy Bodies4m 56s
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Direct Editing: Move Face3m 12s
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Direct Editing: Combine2m 51s
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Direct Editing: Split4m 19s
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Project Curve2m 50s
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Slice tool4m 25s
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Introduction to Sheet Metal tools3m 21s
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Introduction to weldments3m 54s
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Review of available tool sets6m 51s
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Using Markup3m 7s
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