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Creating swept shapes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
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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Loft tool6m 58s
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Lofted shapes with guide curves1m 58s
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Making lofted cuts1m 46s
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Creating swept shapes3m 2s
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Making swept cuts4m 6s
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Using the Wrap command4m 47s
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Boundary Boss/Base3m 47s
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Intersect tool3m 33s
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Working with configurations4m 12s
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Surface tools2m 18s
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Using surfaces to build solid models2m 3s
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Direct Editing: Move/Copy Bodies3m 59s
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Direct Editing: Move Face3m 28s
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Direct Editing: Combine2m 57s
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Direct Editing: Split3m 29s
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Project Curve2m 31s
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Slice tool4m 43s
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