From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training

Making revolved cuts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Making revolved cuts

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- To create a revolved cut, I need the same basics of pretty much any other feature. I need a sketch and I need a axis to rotate that cut around. To get started lets choose either one of these outside faces or I can choose one of the fundamental planes that I normally start from. So I'm going to choose in this case the right plane and go ahead and start a sketch. Now I'm going to click normal to it so it looks straight at one of these faces here or just click on normal to here. And then let's go ahead and draw a circle. I'm going to snap that circle to that top surface there. And define it with a dimension of one inch. Now from the center line I want it revolve aroun around this center point here, so I'm going to choose a center line tool. I'm going to snap to the origin. I'm just going to drag that up and snap to the top of the part. So I'm going to take this shape here, I'm going to revolve it around that line there. Let's go to features and click on revolved cut. This is going to take that little shaving created donut cut. Click Ok, and now I get a half circle cut into the top of my shape here. Because I'm not doing an extruded-self, that shape goes away, right. I'm removing that material, so if I happen to only have material in this feature here on half of it, it's only going to remove half that shape. Even though I'm cutting with a full circle. Now if I take that same sketch and I edit the sketch again, and take that shape now and I move it out here. Same thing is going to happen. This time though I'm changing the model that it's going to be cutting into. So You've got to make sure you're cutting into the right thing. So click on close and take a look at the feature itself, and make sure that you're applying that feature to the right body, that's where your feature scope comes in. So if I click on All Bodies, click Ok, now it should work just fine. So now I'm taking that same cut and cutting it through there. So, again you can apply cuts, especially if you have multiple bodies to one or multiple bodies at the same time. Let's go back here and edit the sketch one more time. This time I'm going to click on normal two one more time, and I'm going to create a little shape that looks like a little triangle. So I can have multiple shapes in the same revolve. Exit out of that sketch and you can see here, I've cut into the top of that shape there and I've cut into the top there. Same thing over here, I can choose another face. For instance here I'm going to cut and click on normal two. Let's draw a sketch with a circle and I'm just going to start right there, and my axis of rotation is going to be this outside edge. So if I have an existing edge there, I don't actually have to go and create a construction line or a revolved axis. I can just use a existing edge. So exit out of that by hitting escape and click on features, revolved cut, and for my axis of rotation I'm going to choose that outside edge. Click Ok, and now I've done revolved cut right through that corner of that part with that shape. So, it's a very powerful tool. It's pretty straightforward and easy to use. Again, the basics are just create a sketch on a face or plane, define what my axis of rotation is going to be, and then just go ahead and create the cut. And just like a regular cut, I also have the option to not cut all the way in a circle. I can choose a certain amount of degrees I want to cut into, and I can cut up to a face or surface or midplane. I can also choose feature scope and define what bodies are going to be effected with that cut. That's the basics for the revolved cut.

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