From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Mesh Tools
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Combine feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Mesh Tools
Combine feature
- [Instructor] Once we've brought a mesh file into SolidWorks, there will be occasions when we'll want to combine that geometry we've created with other geometry that already exists or that we've created additionally afterwords. I'm going to add a locating pin in for this flange and I've got two solid bodies here. If I go up to insert, features, and combine, I have the ability to add these two parts together. So we have three options here. Add, subtract, or make common. The ones you're going to be using mostly are add and subtract. And simply enough that means add the bodies together or subtract one body from another main body. So for this example, we're going to select the body that we brought in as an stl, and then this boss, and hit okay. Now with that done, we've now created one combined solid body. If we take a cross section here, we can see looking through that this is all solid. There's no differentiating between the boss that we had and the solid geometry that we brought in…
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