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Using the Extrude feature

Using the Extrude feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Extrude feature

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- [Instructor] The extrude feature is one of the main workhorses in the arsenal of SOLIDWORKS tools. Let me show you how to make it work. First thing I need to do is create a sketch with an enclosed boundary. So let's go up to Sketch, let's go ahead and choose the top plane, and let's go ahead and just create a basic circle. So grab a circle, come down here, and click right there in the center on the origin, drag out a circle, of course we want to make that fully defined, 'cause it's blue right now, so I want to go ahead and add a Smart Dimension, click over here, add a dimension, let me type in three inches and there it is. Now that's all we need to create an extrude. Start with a sketch with an enclosed boundary, now head over here to Features, come up here to Extruded Boss/Base, and notice my model spins around so I'm looking at an isometric view. Now I have this little arrow here, I can drag this arrow up, and…

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