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Fun with intersections

Fun with intersections - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Fun with intersections

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- [Instructor] For this tip, we're going to be looking and learning more about the intersecting command, or the Intersect command. Now we've already touched on this a little bit on some previous tips and tricks, but I want to dive a little bit deeper and really give you an understanding of what goes into using this tool. So right over here you can see I already have a plane, which is down here, which is going to be a planar surface. And I want to create one more surface that slices through my part. So I'm going to go ahead and choose the Front Plane over here, start a sketch, and I'm going to start with a line. Going to click normal to my part, snap to that endpoint there. Go a little bit past my part, that's fine, because I'm going to be creating a surface here. Come over here to Surfaces, Extruded Surface, let's go ahead and choose the Mid Plane. And let's just make sure that is at least bigger than my part. Click on OK and there's my surface. Okay, now let's go over to the…

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