From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Use the Combine command

Use the Combine command

- [Voiceover] In this example I'm gonna be showing you how to use the Combine command and going over a few of the tips and tricks for making it work a little bit easier. The first thing that I need is a multi-body part. So you can see I have one body here and over here under Solid Bodies notice that there's just this first one. Now I have this part right here and I'm gonna go ahead and revolve that, so go up to Features, let's go up to Revolve, and I'm gonna go ahead and choose this Sketch number four. I'm gonna revolve it around that central axis and there's my part. Now at this point here I wanna make sure that I don't choose Merge result, I actually want two separate bodies. So I'm gonna go ahead and uncheck that and then click on OK. Now I've got one body inside of the other and this is pretty much exactly what the Combine feature is designed to do. I can remove this body here from this body here or I can add them together or I can find where they meet. So let's go ahead and jump…

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