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Hollowing parts with the shell feature

Hollowing parts with the shell feature - Inventor Tutorial

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Hollowing parts with the shell feature

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- [Instructor] We're now ready to look at the shell feature. The shell feature allows you to hollow out a part out of your shape. To do that, we need to create some geometry we can work with and on the screen you can see I have a blank file. I'm going to right click and select New Sketch. I'm going to select the x-y plane to sketch on and create a rectangle, I'm going to right click and select Two Point Rectangle, then we'll hover over the center point of the sketch and drag out a rectangle. Now the size doesn't really matter so I'm going to leave the dimensions off and just simply left click to create the rectangle. Next we'll finish the sketch, right click in the graphics window and select Extrude. We'll accept the value that's entered and click the green check mark. We now have a model we can start with, but let's go ahead and fill out this edge here at the top. I'm going to left click on that and use the heads-up display to select Create Fillet. Then I'm going to drag this so it's…

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