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Boundary surface creation

Boundary surface creation - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Boundary surface creation

- The boundary surface is one of the most powerful and most complicated of all the surface entities. But it's also one of the most useful. So to get started what I have here the rest of the mouse I've been completing. And I've got a couple of boundary surfaces on the top. And I have the lofted surface directly below in red. Now I used the mirror command so that I have this surface here mirrored over to the other side. So I don't have to do the same amount of work twice and create a bunch of extra sketches that I just don't need. So first thing's first, let's go ahead and roll this back so I'm not looking at that mirrored surface. And there it is. Then let's go ahead and delete the boundary surface that I've created. And see how we created it. Now I've got a couple of edges over here. So I've got these surfaces here and here. Which I'm hiding right now. So let's go ahead and show those. So I'm going to show this one and this one. And I basically just created a line here and here. And…

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