From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2017 Essential Training
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Making revolved cuts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2017 Essential Training
Making revolved cuts
- 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…
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Creating sketches6m 23s
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Understanding relationships5m 8s
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Using the Extrude feature3m 48s
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Using the Extruded Cut feature5m 38s
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Creating revolved features4m 25s
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Making revolved cuts3m 31s
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Applying materials, colors, and backgrounds3m 24s
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Finding mass properties2m 23s
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System options, units, and templates2m 28s
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