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Shaping the arc

Shaping the arc - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle Engine with SOLIDWORKS

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Shaping the arc

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- Next, we want to add some shape to the top arc of our flywheel. We're going to sketch our next profile on the right plane, and the reason I've chosen this plane is that I intend using the Revolved Cut command, and I know that it has a Mid-Plane End Condition which we can use to cut our arc profile symmetrically. We need to plan ahead a bit in that we want the bottom of our next profile to be collinear with the very top of the circle extrude. However, we have already removed material from the top of the circle extrude with the holes we cut through the top arc. This is one of the powerful aspects of parametric modelers that we can roll back to a point in time to add, remove, or change geometry. Within the Feature Manager, we can select a feature and from the Context toolbar, roll back to and including the feature we selected which in our case will be the first cut feature we made. Now we can access the top of the circle geometry, and can get started on our Revolved Cut profile. Let's…

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