From the course: Modeling a Cabinet with SOLIDWORKS

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Front frame decor

Front frame decor

- Alright, next we're going to create the decorative parts for the front of the cabinet. Now there's a lot of work in here, so let's head on over to SOLIDWORKS, it's going to be pretty lengthy, so let's get to it. So I've already shown a number of planes just to speed things up for us now. So we've got the side, front and the frame width and then the top plane visible as well. Going over to the skeleton component, let's make that editable. I'm going to take the front frame thickness and we'll derive then the thickness for our decorative part putting it forward. Let's set this dimension to 24 millimeters and complete the command, and let's rename this to front decor thickness. I'm going to take off the, or change the semi-transparency to opaque from the command bar. Let's exit the skeleton edit mode, head on over and insert a new component, so new part, and let's name this front decor and OK to complete that. Now I'm going to select the front plane, exit out of sketch as per usual. So…

Contents