From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Create the inner piston

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Create the inner piston

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- [Instructor] The next part we're going to make is the inner piston and this is also quite a simple part with just two features, pretty similar to the one that we just made. This is the part that fits inside the heater cylinder and moves back and forth. So start a new part, and we'll start a sketch on the right plane. This part also starts with a revolve, so firstly we'll draw a center line from the origin, horizontally out to the side and let's make this 48 millimeters long. Then use the line tool and just draw two lines, one vertically up and then one horizontally along 'til you're above the origin. And then set this diameter as 30.5. So this might fully define your sketch. If it's not fully defined, you might just need to get the end of this line and make sure that it's vertically above the origin. Then we'll select the sketch filet tool, and we'll add a one millimeter sketch filet. So just type in one millimeter…

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