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Replace Face

Replace Face - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Replace Face

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- [Instructor] If you're starting with some solid geometry that doesn't quite conform to a surface you're trying to replicate, using the Replace Face feature is very powerful. I'm a big fan of Delete Face, Replace Face, and the Delete Hole feature. These give you the ability to take features that are out there and just kind of shift them around, project them on different surfaces, or just eliminate them all together. So let's see what we can do with the Replace Face feature. I'm going to go ahead and click on that. There are two selections that you are given here. The first one asks you for, I'm going to just hover for a second and not move my mouse. If you do that on any of these windows, it'll tell you what it's looking for. So this is asking for the target faces for replacement, and then the second window is the replacement surface. So I'm going to take this face right here, and I'm going to replace it with this surface. Now just to back up a second, it will let you just pick…

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