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Importing a mesh body

Importing a mesh body - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Importing a mesh body

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- [Instructor] For this next series of tips and tricks we're going to be working with mesh bodies, and I'm going to go over all kinds of tips and tricks for working with these and bringing them into SolidWorks. Now if you're working in SolidWorks 2019 or SolidWorks 2020, you've got a whole bunch of new tools that can work with these mesh bodies or point clouds. And if you're working prior to that you're probably not going to be doing too well because SolidWorks is absolutely terrible at dealing with any type of a mesh body prior to SolidWorks 2019. It's just the tools were not there. In fact, in this example here I've got this little bunny up here on the screen, and this is actually for my daughter. We're going to do a project and she wanted to make a key ring out of a bunny. And so what we did is we downloaded this little bunny file off the internet and then I made this little toroid here in the back, which is going to be the key…

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