Overview
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Get up to speed with the surfacing tools within SOLIDWORKS fast. Learn how to create and modify surfaces, troubleshoot common issues, and manipulate faces in surfaces and solids.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Planes for surfaces
- Spline creation
- 3D curve creation
- Working with the Extruded Surface tool
- Making revolved surfaces
- The Swept Surface tool
- Building a lofted surface
- Boundary surface creation
- Filled Surface tool
- Making a planar surface
- Working with the Freeform surface command
- How to offset a surface
- Creation of a ruled surface
- Extending surfaces
- Trimming surfaces
- Untrimming surfaces
- Using the Knit Surface tool
- Adding in fillets
- Thickening surfaces
- Fixing corners
- Fillet problems
- Using the Up to Surface command
- Cut with surface
- Making a thickened cut
- How to delete a face
- Moving faces
- Replace Face command
- Goodbye
