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Creating revolved features

Creating revolved features - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating revolved features

- [Instructor] To create a revolve feature, we need two main ingredients. Number one is an enclosed boundary just like we need for an extrude. And number two is a centerline or something to revolve around. Let's show you how that works. Go over here to Sketch. Let's start a brand new sketch. I'm going to choose the front plane. And the first thing I want to draw is a centerline. So under Line, I click on the twirl down and click on the Centerline. I'll start at the origin, let's draw a line directly up. And for fun, why not, let's just go ahead and create a couple extra lines. Let's make one down here. How about one over here, and have one up there. Why not. Okay, now let's drag out a rectangle. So here's a two-point rectangle. Drag one out. And that's all pretty much you need to do. You don't need to make these other lines, I'm just making them for fun to show you a couple of different examples. But over here under Features, let's go over here to revolve. The first question is, what…

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