From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Wrap feature

- [Instructor] In this example, lemme show you a few cool tricks using the Wrap feature. Now right here, I've got this arrow and you can see it's considerably longer than this cylinder over here and I wanna wrap that around the entire cylinder. Now go up here to Wrap, choose the individual surface or the sketch you wanna use which is this one right here, so I'm gonna go ahead and choose it from the Feature manager right there, and the surface I'd like to wrap it around. So first I'm gonna use the Analytical method, choose that one here, and choose this surface and even though it's longer than the surface it wraps it right around there, no problem. So click on this, and you can see we've embossed that, or debossed that around the outside of the cylinder. Now the next thing I wanna do is, I wanna make a couple of adjustments to my cylinder. So I'm gonna go ahead and roll this Feature manager back before the Wrap feature, I'm gonna Unsuppress a couple things I have here. So what I've added is a cut as well as a couple fillets here and now what I wanna do is go back and see if my Wrap feature will wrap around, and of course it doesn't, because we've got an issue. So what I need to do here is actually delete the feature, I can't go back and edit it because it won't let you. So you need to actually delete the feature out so click on this and hit Delete. Let's go ahead and confirm the Delete. Alright, now what we're gonna do is go select that Sketch again, click on Wrap. Let's go ahead and try to choose this surface here, now if I choose that one there, notice it doesn't include this cut as well as the individual fillets, and that's not what I really want. If I click on OK, it says, no you can't really do that. So let's go ahead and cancel out of that, and then try it one more time. Click on the Sketch, come up here to Wrap, now instead of using the Analytical method, let's go ahead and use the Spline Surface. Click on that one there, let's go ahead and try to choose the faces, let's click on this one here, notice it does work on this side. Click on that face there, that one there, and that one there, and as soon as I've chosen one continuous path, notice it does work. So there's a couple different ways you can use the Wrap feature, and if you have a disjoint surface, or it's made up of multiple individual surfaces, this Wrap feature will work as long as you're using this Spline Surface method. So click on OK, and you can see it does work across all those individual surfaces. So hopefully this example does give you a couple of cool tricks up your sleeve for using the Wrap feature.

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