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Using Rib

Using Rib - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using Rib

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- [Instructor] Now I'm going to add some ribs to my enclosure to improve the structural strength of the part. Now the rib command is slightly different than some of the standard SolidWorks commands we may be used to, but it works somewhat similar to the thin extrude command. The first thing I want to do is define a rib plane or a position in which my ribs will start. Now I could do this from just the top face here of my shell object, but in most cases, ribs might not go all the way up to the surface and might just a portion of the way up to the surface here. So in this case, just for a simple example, I'll create a reference plane. I'm going to create a reference plane here and I'm going to offset that from my top face here. And I might need to flip the direction. And I'll offset let's say five millimeters below the top surface there. So we'll just have a nice rib plane and I can say okay to this. So I'm going to use my plane number one here, which was just again offset five…

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