From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Surfacing

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Thicken - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Thicken

- [Male] The Thicken Command just takes a basic surface and it turns it into a solid with a certain uniform wall thickness. It's pretty handy tool, and it can be used in multiple different ways. So, right over here, we've got a surface, which looks a lot like dog bowl. And I'm going to go ahead and thicken it. So, head up here to thicken. Okay. And my thicken parameters, I want to choose a surface, I'm going to choose this guy right here, just going to do the whole thing. I have the option of thickening to one side, or the other side, or bi-directional. So, in this case here, I'm going to go to the outside and my thickness is going to be five millimeters. All right. And there it is. So, click on that, again, it's a pretty straightforward tool. Now I have a solid, but notice in here, the bottom. I want to point out something. Because it thickened it, you got this kind of like little tapered edge here, at the…

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