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Direct Editing: Combine

Direct Editing: Combine - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Direct Editing: Combine

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- The combine command is what I call a bullying operator. It's going to allow us to add things together, subtract them, or find what is in common between two individual bodies. Now the problem is, I only have one body so far. so I need to create a secondary body and I need to not merge the two bodies together. So I have this sketch right over here. I'm going to go ahead and create a revolve feature. So here's my revolve. I'm going to go ahead and revolve around that center axis there and then make sure I uncheck this merge result. I don't want that to be combined together. I want two separate bodies. So now you can see I've got this body here and I've got that body there. So you have to have multi-bodies obviously to make this command work. Now over here under the direct editing tool bar, we've got the combined command right over here. We have three different options. We can add them together, We can subtract theM or we…

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