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Creating swept shapes

Creating swept shapes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating swept shapes

- [Narrator] When you think about a sweep, think about something that has a uniform cross section and it's being driven along a certain path, almost like a hose or a wire or something like that. Now generally you're going to be using something like a circle or a square or some kind of simple shape and then you'll probably have a more complex path that we'll be going through. Think about almost like a wire routing through a device or something along those lines. It's just a simple circular profile but your path or where it's going could be very complicated. So in this example here, we've got a very simple shape which is just a square at the bottom of a rectangle and we've got this path of a hanger that we're going to be creating. So the first thing I want to do is choose that path and that profile but before we do that let's head up here to the swept boss or base. And notice the icon over here is a shape of a circle showing me that that is what I'm looking for as the profile. So if you…

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