From the course: Learning CATIA v5
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Shell
- [Instructor] Here we're going to discuss shell. Shell's a very powerful tool in that it allows you to create and sculpt one side of a model, and then, by selecting faces on the opposite side, the system will carve out to a continuous thickness to the inside or the outside depending on how you designed your part the value that you specify. So there I have a two millimeter thick wall going throughout the entire part. You'll notice the wall that I selected is the one that disappears. So to make a modification I can either double-click the shell in the tree, or in this case because this an inside thickness, I can double-click inside of the shell. I can select additional faces to shell out as well. Now I'm going to come back up to just before the shell, I'm going to right mouse click on the pocket, the final work object, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to add in a couple of fillets here and up here as well. The reason why I'm doing this is so you can see that when I come back down…
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