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Using the Extrude feature

Using the Extrude feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Extrude feature

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- [Instructor] The extrude feature is one of the biggest workhorses inside of SolidWorks. We use that pretty much all the time to create a majority of the geometry you're probably going to be designing inside of SolidWorks. It basically takes a sketch with an enclosed boundary, and it just defines how far we want to pull that into a 3D space. To get started, let's go ahead and just create a sketch, why don't we choose the top plane, here, and let's just create some geometry. How about a circle? Click a circle on the origin, and go ahead and choose the extruded boss or base under the features tab, and then go ahead and just drag that up. Now, we get a couple options here. I can click on this arrow and drag it up if I want to, and notice I get this little in context ruler that kind of shows up where I'm dragging, or just type in a value here. So let's type in 3.0. Now, again, this is pretty straightforward, but we have a few more options inside of the boss extrude feature. Under here…

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