From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
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Mid Plane and mirroring - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
Mid Plane and mirroring
- [Instructor] To design link number five, I will start a sketch on the front plane here, and sketch a circle with a dimension of 50 millimeters, and then I want to extrude that out 50 millimeters as well. Again, I'm going to make use of Mid Plane here, so I can mirror, and then from here I'm going to also sketch on my front face here just to give a little circular cutout, so sketch a circle again, and dimension this 35 millimeters, and that's just how I'll connect it to the previous link, and I'll do a extrude cut three millimeters deep here. It's just a little cutout, and that's the cutout there. I'm going to want to mirror that about my front plane, so it should come on the other side there, perfectly mirrored. If I'm happy with that, I can say OK, and then from here I'll also want to sketch a circle on my right plane here, and I'll sketch a circle, make sure it's starting on my origin point there as well, give a dimension of, let's say, 40 millimeters, and then maybe extrude that…
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