From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2024 Essential Training

Using the Extruded Cut feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2024 Essential Training

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Using the Extruded Cut feature

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- [Instructor] The cut extrude feature is one of the more common features that we're going to be using inside of SolidWorks, and we use that for cutting holes in our parts. So to use the cut extrude feature, it's pretty straightforward. All we need is a sketch and what we want to cut through, but there's a bunch of options and I want to dive in and show you what those are. So right over here, let's go ahead and create a sketch, and I'm going to choose this surface right here to draw that on. And I want to make sure I'm not intersecting with this lower level here. I want to make sure I'm slightly above that, right? So I'm going to click and make sure that I'm actually looking at that surface here, and then I'm going to switch over from the shaded mode all the way here to wire frame. So I'm going to choose a sketch, drag something out like that. I want to make sure I'm staying away from that line down there, right? So I can see I kind of have like a sketch like that. Go back to shaded mode. That looks fine. And go over here to features and come to extruded cut. Okay, now I'm going to type in something like two inches, and notice that I'm just doing a blind cut directly into that block, and you can see what's going to happen. It's going to cut in here and that's what it's going to look like. Click on OK, and now you can see that's exactly what we got, a little pocket here that we've cut out of that block. Now if you want to go back to that feature, you can come over here and say, "Hey, I didn't want to do blind, I want it to go through all." Well, that's an option. I can say that, and do it through all, but notice, hey, I was expecting to go through everything, but I didn't cut through this block over here. Well, why not? Well, go back over here, and notice at the very bottom here is feature scope, right? I can choose all bodies, click OK, and now it's going to cut through everything. Or you can come over here and say, "Hey, you know I didn't want to go through everything. I actually want to select which body I want to cut through, and I want to cut through just that one over there." Well, that's fine, and now it doesn't do anything to this body here, and it just does the cut over here. So you can select which features apply to what, okay? Now instead of through all, we could just say through all both, and if there's something on this side, it would cut through the there as well, but in this case, we don't have it, so we can't use that one. Up to next. Makes sense. It's just going to find the next surface that it's going to cut through, and just click OK, and make sure that we actually do select our body. All bodies, then it's going to be okay. Here it is, so now we're selecting up to next, come back over here, and we want to make sure that the up to vertex is available. So right over here, I can choose a vertex, like this one right over here, and it's going to bring and cut all the way up to where that point is. Alright, go back one more time. Let's see what happens here. Instead of vertex, let's say up to surface, right? So I could do something like a surface like this one right here, and notice it's going to cut all the way up to that surface, right? So it's going to cut up there. It's not going to cut any further, and of course, we can do offset from surface as well. So offset from surface here and you put in a value, right? I'm going to type in like let's say one inch over here. Right, click OK, and now it's going to follow that surface at the end there as our stopping point, right? So very cool what you can do there. Come back over here, up to body, right? You can choose a different body and say, "Hey, I want to cut everything into that point." That works as well. And how about this next one here, which is going to be midplane, right? So I can go in both directions, but that doesn't really matter because there's nothing on this other side. So a bunch of options there. The other thing you can do is like if you're doing like a blind cut, is you can say, "Hey, I want to put some draft on there," right? I can say, "Hey, I'm going to go and draft this thing." I'm going to go, let's say it's five inches. Nah, let's go 10 inches, a little further, and I got this little point now. I got a little pyramid, and if maybe that angle's too much, you know, I can change it with this over here, and maybe that's the shape you're looking for. I can draft it out. I can draft outward also, make it bigger. You know, a couple of different things you can do there. Click OK, and now I've got that drafted feature kind of cutting through there. So you have the option for adding draft. It's very powerful there. Of course, draft outwards, you can go in another direction if you wanted to. So I'm only going in one direction here, but if you click on this box here, you can choose to go and do the same thing the other way, and if you do choose another direction, you can choose exactly this, all these same options in that second direction as well, right? But for in this case, we don't have anything on the other side so it doesn't make sense. But anyways, those are pretty much all the different things you can do with the cut feature tool. We're pretty much going to be using the cut feature tool anytime you add a hole or modify your part, so get used to this tool, 'cause you're going to be using this one quite a bit.

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