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Creating revolved features

Creating revolved features - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating revolved features

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- [Narrator] To create a revolve feature, we need two main ingredients. Number one is an enclosed boundary, just like we need for an extrude. And number two is a centerline or something to revolve around. Let's show you how that works. Go over here to Sketch, let's start a brand new sketch. I'm going to choose the Front Plane, and the first thing I want to draw is a centerline. So under Line, I click on the twirl down and click on the Centerline, and let's start the origin and just draw a line directly up. And for fun, why not, let's just go ahead and create a couple extra lines. Let's make one down here, how 'about one over here, and one up there, why not? Okay now, let's drag out a rectangle. So here's a two point rectangle, drag one out. And that's all pretty much you need to do. You don't need to make these other lines, I'm just making them for fun, to show you a couple different examples. Over here, under Features, let's go over here to Revolve. The first question is "What is my…

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