Using Rib

- [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 millimeters…as my rib plane.…

So now I can just create a new sketch on this plane.…