From the course: Learning CATIA v5
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Making a solid
- [Instructor] Now that I have my sketch created, I need to create my initial solid. You'll notice that in Part Design some of the features are grayed out. The pad feature is currently active. The pocket feature is currently grayed out. And the reason behind this is pad creates and adds material. Pocket creates and removes material. Currently I do not have any material to remove anything from, thus the pocket is not active. So here, I'm going to select pad. Once I select my pad it's asking me what do I want to pad out? So I need to specify my profile. Once I pick my sketch, pad takes that into account. And now I enter in the size of my pad. I can manually enter in my input. I can grab the limit and drag it out. And I have various other options contained here within my pad definition. So now that I have pad specified to the size that I want, I simply select OK. And you'll notice that in the tree, I have my pad. The parent is Sketch.1 and it is nested underneath the pad. This in…
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