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Surface From Mesh tool

Surface From Mesh tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Surface From Mesh tool

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- When you import a prismatic part, which is a mesh file, we generally want to create a SolidWorks solid from that, right. Or you want to pull some individual surfaces from that shape. Now, because it's already prismatic, which means it has flat surfaces, it was probably created in another piece of software and then exported as an STL file or some other mesh file format. Now, we just want to again use that data. So what we have is a couple tools inside of the mesh modeling toolbar here to pull out those surfaces. And one of those is surface from mesh. So right over here, I got this graphic body here. I imported into a mesh body and then I actually segmented the mesh. So I've got couple of them here. So I have individual faces now of that mesh body. And this is also a part that we worked on, on an earlier tip but now I want to actually bring in and pull in the individual surfaces from this. So to do that, click on surface…

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