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Creation of a ruled surface

Creation of a ruled surface - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creation of a ruled surface

- The Ruled Surface command is a very powerful one again, that allows us to create lines that are perpendicular or normal to existing edges in a model. So, it's a great way to connect one surface to another, and to create 3D shapes. So, what I have here is, I've got this A cutout inside of a surface. So, if I hide this one here, I've got two surfaces, I'll just show you kinda what's going on here first, is hide that one, you can see I've just got a cutout in one of them, and then I've got this other surface directly on the inside here, which I'm going to go ahead and show. And that's just a blue surface, so there's nothing in, it's a hollow shape. And I want to connect the two together. Alright, I want to fill in some surfaces here between the two. There's about a 100,000s gap between the two of these, and that's what I want to fill in. So, what I'm gonna do is use the Ruled Surface. So, here's the Ruled Surface, and I have a bunch of different options. I can be Tangent to the…

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