From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications
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Solid body vs. surface body management - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications
Solid body vs. surface body management
- [Instructor] When dealing with importing geometry in SOLIDWORKS, it's important to understand the difference between solid bodies and surface bodies, and then what you can do to manage and move in between the two styles. Here you see I've created a box just for this exercise. Very simple, just a boss extrusion with a sketch. Now going down this feature tree, I'm going to unroll the rollback bar. The first thing that I did was use the delete face feature. So you can see here that it simply just picks a face and deletes it. Now, I've gone from a solid body to a surface body. The way to think of this is just five surface planes. They've made up the geometry of my box. Now let's say I wanted to add to this geometry. Let's roll our bar down some more and see what I've done here. So on top, I've added a surface extrusion, a very simple process that works just like extruding, a boss. We just make a sketch, and extrude, using the surface features. I've also made a surface plane. Similar…
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Importing 3D geometry1m 46s
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Searching for imported geometry1m 48s
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Explanation of IGES files and limitations42s
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Importing an IGES file5m 23s
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Explanation of STEP files and limitations51s
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Importing a STEP file4m
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Explanation of Parasolid files and limitations1m 5s
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Importing a Parasolid file4m 55s
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Explanation of STL files and limitations58s
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Importing an STL file6m 2s
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Saving as a part or assembly using FeatureWorks5m 36s
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Solid body vs. surface body management3m 3s
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