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Filled Surface tool

Filled Surface tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Filled Surface tool

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- A filled surface can be thought of almost like a piece of saran wrap and you're gonna drag that and stretch that piece of saran wrap over a series of edges and you want a nice smooth, filled in surface. That's basically what we're gonna need to create here. Now, you can use the filled surfaces with the basic any type of user service modeling, but you could also use em as a great helper in solid modeling and that's what I'm going to point out to you right here. One of the biggest problems you're gonna run into when you're doing multiple fill its coming together is it won't look that great where they all merge together. So, let's go over to features here and grab out fill it command. Now, I have this, basically this is just a stack of blocks here and I'm gonna fill the corners. So, I'm gonna go ahead and choose a half inch fill it. So, type .5 and right away, we're gonna see a couple errors are gonna happen, so if I choose this edge here and then come down and choose this edge here…

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