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Using the Extrude feature

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Using the Extrude feature

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- [Speaker] The Extrude feature is one of the biggest workhorses inside of SolidWorks. We use that pretty much all the time to create majority of the geometry you're probably going to be designing inside of SolidWorks. It basically takes a sketch with an enclosed boundary and it just defines how far we want to pull that into a 3D space. To get started, let's go ahead and just create a sketch, I'm going to choose the top plane here and let's just create some geometry, how about a circle? Hook a circle on the origin and go ahead and just click on Extruded Boss/Base under the Features menu and go ahead and choose the Extruded Boss/Base under the Features tab and then go ahead and just drag that up. Now we have a couple options here, I can click on this arrow and drag it up if I want to and notice I get this little in context ruler that kind of shows up where I'm dragging or just type in a value here. So let's type in 3.0. Now again this is pretty straight forward but we have a few more…

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