From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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Add a lip using the Offset tool

Add a lip using the Offset tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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Add a lip using the Offset tool

- [Instructor] Now we have a pretty good basic enclosure, and we're going to start adding some more advanced features to it. The first of these, is going to be a lip around where the two halves join, and this will allow them to fit together really nicely. In a more advanced enclosure, this kind of feature could be used as something like waterproofing, or dust protection. We're going to start with the top half. So let's click on it and press Open Part. We're going to cut away a portion of the wall, all the way around on the inside, and then there's going to be a corresponding lip on the other half that fits into this cavity. So the problem is this cut is complicated a little bit, by the extra cutouts that we've added. So we can simplify it by dragging the rollback bar up above these cuts. Hover over the blue bar at the bottom of the Feature tray, then hold down the left mouse button, and just drag the bar all the way above…

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