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Using the Extruded Cut feature

Using the Extruded Cut feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Extruded Cut feature

- Once I have some 3D objects inside of SOLIDWORKS then I can use the Extruded Cut feature to start cutting some holes through those parts. Now I can use just one piece or it can have multiple pieces and interact them all together. So just like creating a Boss Extrude, I can choose a face or a plane. I can choose one of these three fundamental planes: top, front, or right planes. Or I can chose any of these individual faces of these parts to draw something on. I can use any flat face, not curved faces, to make that happen. So first things first, let's click on this face right here. Let's start a sketch and let's just draw a basic circle. I'm going to draw in 3D here so I'm looking at the view in 3D, I'm not drawing in 3D or I can click on the space bar and I can click on this one here called Normal To which then it'll look directly at that shape. Once you have the shape, you can add dimensions if you want, you can tie it into the origin if you want, you can do a lot of things but in…

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