From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Looking at solid sweeps

Looking at solid sweeps

- [Narrator] For this week's tip, I'm going to be talking about a solid sweep. And a solid sweep is one of those things that's been inside of SOLIDWORKS for quite a while, but it's kind of underutilized and not well known about. So I want to kind of show you what is the difference between a regular sweep and a solid sweep. So to get started, let's do a regular sweep. So let's go up to Swept Cut. And I'm going to choose a sketch profile for the type. And I'm gonna use the profile and use this little circle here that I predefined as the sketch profile. And as far as the path, I'm going to use this line right there. Pretty straightforward, click on OK and you can see what it does. It just created a little swept cut into there with a flat-bottomed hole. Now, if I want to create a solid sweep, I need a few more ingredients. So the first thing I want to do is click on this top surface and start a sketch. I'm gonna start a circle right there at that endpoint, define its size as the same size…

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