From the course: Cert Prep: Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional
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Add structural changes to the part - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional
Add structural changes to the part
- [Instructor] One of the questions you may see in the exam, is to make a structural change to the part you've been working with. Now, more than likely, that'll make some things fail, and the exam's testing you on your ability to solve those issues, or solve those failures in your model and then recreate the features. So, in this case here, I've got my starting part right here, which is the 3.5 dash one, and I want to create something that looks like this 3.5 dash two, so I'm making as structural change to the left-hand side of the model, and let me show you how I would do that. So, click on and expand the first one, I don't want to just start adding things here, so I can actually roll back the history bar, and this is probably a pretty good place to start adding that shape. Now, I've added the cut-through, or the hole through this, as a separate feature, so that makes it a little bit easier to create. So, first things first, let's click on this surface right here, start a sketch…
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