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Making revolved cuts

Making revolved cuts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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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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