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Using the Extruded Cut feature

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Using the Extruded Cut feature

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- [Instructor] The Extruded Cut feature is very similar to a regular extrude, except in stead of adding material, we're removing it. Now, in this example here, I've got a couple different parts, and I'm going to go ahead and create a sketch at the end here. And let's go ahead and just create a rectangle. I'm going to use a corner rectangle, and let's just drag one down right over here and place it. Alright, so now I can go Features, and Extruded Cut is my first option there. Now my first option is go ahead and just cut through anything, blindly cut through this part. Now, if I click on that, it'll automatically cut through this first surface here, as well as the surface over here, and it didn't cut through this one here, because it's a little bit high, but it'll cut through basically anything it sees in front of it, and it doesn't really care, because it's just blindly cutting. Now, if I go back to that feature, itself, click on Edit Feature again. Instead of blind, if I choose maybe…

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