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SOLIDWORKS: Surfacing

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Overview

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

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Sketching for Surfaces
  • Planes for surfaces
  • Spline creation
  • 3D curve creation
2. Surface Creation Tools
  • 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
3. Surface Modifiers
  • Extending surfaces
  • Trimming surfaces
  • Untrimming surfaces
  • Using the Knit Surface tool
  • Adding in fillets
  • Thickening surfaces
4. Using Surfaces with Solids
  • Fixing corners
  • Fillet problems
  • Using the Up to Surface command
  • Cut with surface
  • Making a thickened cut
5. Direct Editing Tools
  • How to delete a face
  • Moving faces
  • Replace Face command
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Gabriel Corbett

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