Surface tools

- [Narrator] In this example, were going to be taking a look at some of these surface tools that are available in Solid Works. Now, this only going to be a very brief introduction to some of the tools, and if interested in more surfacing tools we have an entire course on the LinkedIn library. Now, first things first, let's make sure we have these surfaces tool bar turned on. So come up here, click on any one of this available tabs. Right click, and make sure you do have this surfaces turned on. I already have it turned on, so if you turned it off go ahead and click on it and then turn it right back on. And the first thing we want to do is the extrude surface.

So click on extrude surface, come out here and choose any one of these sketches that I already have, and you can just drag that out very similar to a regular extrude. You also have the option of going in the other direction, just drag it out. You can type in the values, you can choose how you want to end that. Whether its blind, up to vertex, up to surface, and so on. Just like a regular extrude feature. Click OK when you're done, and there you have it. All right, let's go ahead and delete that out. The next example's going to be a swept surface. So in this case here, I'm going to come up to swept surface, and click on the profile, which is going to be this one right here, and then choose my path which is going to be this one right over here.

All right, and if you come down here to options, we can show a preview of what's going to happen, and there it is. Click on OK and there is my new surface, and you see it's pretty complicated surface. Just by using a couple of simple blinds and using a sweep to create that profile. Okay, the next ones going to be a revolve. So I already have this shape over here, and I'm going to come over here to revolve, choose that. I'm going to choose this sketch right here, my axis of rotation is going to be this one right over here. And you see quickly, I'm able to revolve that around just like you might see in a regular revolve.

You also can change the axis of rotation to a different line. If you want to delete this one of here, you can click and get rid of that. Go back to 360 over here, and how about choosing this one down here. That also worked. Click on that one, and you automatically have a revolve going in the other direction. So all you need is one open boundary, and an axis of rotation and it can easily create simple swept surfaces as well as extrude surfaces. Now, there's a whole bunch of other tools in here were not going to have time to cover. But if you are interested in a little bit more detail on the surfacing tools, definitely check out my course on surfacing.