From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Surfacing
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Thicken - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Surfacing
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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Spline creation4m 14s
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3D curve creation3m 47s
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Projected curves2m 58s
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Loft surfaces4m 4s
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Guided curves6m 50s
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Trim Surface/Untrim Surface1m 35s
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Boundary surface3m 4s
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Blend surface3m 11s
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Filled surface2m 16s
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Planar surface1m 12s
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Ruled surface creation2m 48s
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Swept surface5m 14s
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Knit surface4m 16s
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Offset surface2m 14s
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Move face2m 49s
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Extend surface2m 34s
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Fillet2m 32s
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Thicken1m 29s
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Split solid body5m 41s
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Sensors2m 10s
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Delete hole3m 3s
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