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Making woodworking joints with solids

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Making woodworking joints with solids

- [Instructor] This week I'm going to create different woodworking joints using solid tools. Solid tools are located on the tools menu down here, and actually outer shell is also a solid tool. Not sure why it's not in the submenu, but there you have it. You can also go over here to tool palettes, solid tools, and you'll have all of them, so we have outer shell, intersect, union, subtract, trim, and split. And of these I find trim the most useful. It's kind of my go-to solid tool. So to get started let's go ahead and create a rectangle. I'm going to press the right arrow to constrain that in this direction, and I'll type in the dimensions 1.5, comma, .5, enter. And then I'll press Z to zoom extents, and then I will use push/pull and pull that back some arbitrary distance just to create a piece of wood here. Then I'll press the space bar for the select tool, triple-click on the surface to select everything that's contiguous,…

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