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Working with the Freeform surface command

Working with the Freeform surface command - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with the Freeform surface command

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- The freeform surface tool inside of SOLIDWORKS allows you to take a solid model, grab one of the faces and start manipulating it around, and creating a real freeform surface. To get started, let's go ahead and click on the surfacing toolbar and click on freeform. The first thing it's asking for is a face to deform, and I'm going to choose the top of this rectangular block, and as soon as I do that, it gives me a little grid, and it shows me on all four corners, that I have a contact connection. So I can also click on any of these, and look at the other options here, but we'll get to that later. The next thing I wanna do, is I want to add some symmetry, you can do this if you want to, it's not required, but if I add symmetry in direction one, that means anything I do on the right-hand side here shows up on the left-hand side. Same here with direction two, anything on the right, same thing on the left. I don't wanna turn on direction two though, I'm gonna turn that one off. Now it's…

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