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Boss removal

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Boss removal

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- [Instructor] So now I have the bosses in the model, but I don't have the bosses in the core. The core cavity method is very conducive to building the actual tool that's going to be used for the coring process. So when I put the bosses in, I don't necessarily add them to the main body. What I do is I go to the body that's generating the core. Now if I take a look at this, I'm just going to right mouse click on this and say Define In Work Object, you'll see here this is the actual core body, okay? The initial close surface that's being used for the cavity, if I Define In Work Object on that, you can see the large radii. What's happening is the core is removing the actual volume from the back of the part to define the B side. Now what I have is a visualization tool turned on so that when I look at the individual body, all I see is that one solid volume. So if I come down here and hit this little arrow under CurrentBody, you'll see I have this tool right over here. What this does is it…

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