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Modeling a caddy foot using the Revolve command

Modeling a caddy foot using the Revolve command - Inventor Tutorial

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Modeling a caddy foot using the Revolve command

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- [Voiceover] So we're back in the sketching guide. And our next part that we're actually going to model is the ball foot, and I wanted to show you a picture of that very quickly, so that you understand how it's constructed. We have a diameter of one inch, and then a small portion that sticks up above the circle with a diameter of .25. So going back to Inventor, we're going to select New, to generate a new cart. We're going to go ahead and remember this time to save this part as ball_foot. And now we have it ready to go. So we're going to start 2D Sketch. And on this one we're going to select a little different plane. We're going to go to XY and we're ready to use our anchor point here to generate a circle. Notice there's tons of different types of circles. We're going to utilize Center Point circle. We'll draw that circle to be one inch, so enter one. Next, we're going to draw a line from the top quadrant to the bottom quadrant of that circle. You'll feel the cursor sort of snap to…

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