From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Using the split feature

Using the split feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design

Start my 1-month free trial

Using the split feature

“

The Split feature can be handy for separating a part into many pieces using a cut service. This tool can be used both for solid and sheet metal parts. Sometimes it's easier to design one part and then split that part into many pieces using the split feature as one of the final features in the part. To use the Split tool we need to create a surface first. If you're not familiar with the Surfacing tools that's okay, they're not too hard to use. But we do need to make sure we add in the Surfacing Tool Palette. First, let's go up to anyone of the available tabs, right click on it and make sure we turn on the Surfaces ribbon bar. As soon as it shows up we can go into Surfaces and we want to create an extrude surface. However, before we do an extruded surface, we have to create a sketch to extrude. So let's go back over here. You can see that I have a sketch laid out on top of this part over here. Let's go ahead and edit that sketch. And take a look at what we have. So I've got a few…

Contents