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Create the cooler cylinder

Create the cooler cylinder - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Create the cooler cylinder

- [Instructor] The second cooler part that we're going to make is the cooler cylinder. This is quite similar to the heater cylinder. So it's quite a simple part, but it's just got a little bit more complexity because it has cooling fins on it. Let's start a new part. And we're going to use a revolve. So as usual, a revolve starts with a center line. Start a sketch on the front plane. And draw that center line from the origin, horizontally out, and 47 millimeters long. Then use the line tool to draw an L shaped profile like this. So it starts somewhere above the origin, but not at the origin. It goes vertically up and then horizontally out to the end of that center line. We've got this small gap here for the rod to go through. Let's add some dimensions. So this line should be 40 millimeters diameter. Remember with the diameter, you can add the radius to the center line. But if you move the dimension over to the…

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