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How to delete a face

How to delete a face - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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How to delete a face

- The delete face command is one of the coolest and most powerful commands inside of SOLIDWORKS. Let me show you a little bit more about this command. Now, we've looked at it in some of the previous courses, and we've seen some of the power it can do. I want to dive a little bit deeper and show you what this command can really do. First things first, let's jump up and grab it from either the Surfaces toolbar, or from the Direct Editing toolbar. So, either one of those. Grab it here: Delete Face. Now, I've got three options here: I can either Delete, I can Delete and Patch, or I can Delete and Fill. Now, earlier we've used both the Delete and the Delete and Fill, but this time I want to use the Delete and Patch, and really show you what that can do. But before I do that, let's just look at the basic Delete command. Basic Delete: choose a surface or a face, and just click on OK, that turns this into a surface model only, I can look inside and see exactly what's going on here. That's not…

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