How to Recess a Curved Surface in SolidWorks, by Josh Mings

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:00 +0000

“Five minutes from now, you will know two ways to recess a surface in SolidWorks. They won’t necessarily crush your skull, but they may expand it slightly by enriching your mind with the power of sketch, surface and split face features.

“It seems like there should be one feature to recess a surface in SolidWorks. It’s simple on a flat surface, a cut with a draft. But for a curved surface? Now, that’s a whole other beast and requires much more than one feature to create. Fortunately, you have at least two methods. Let’s Rock.” …

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Published by Josh Mings on 9/16/09 on SolidSmack

Creating Fillets using Hold Lines, by Alex Ruiz

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:45:07 +0000

“Another week is upon us, it’s time to knock those cobwebs out of your head and get ready to learn some more cool stuff. Last week, I went over a couple of fillet tricks that I hope you enjoyed and this week I am doing more of the same. One of my favorite fillet tricks is using Hold Lines with Face Fillets. Hold lines allow you to better control how you fillet your part by specifying the tangent lines for a fillet rather then the radius. Today, we’ll look at two ways hold lines can be used.” …

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Published by Alex Ruiz on 9/8/08 on The SolidWorks Geek

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How to Recess a Curved Surface in SolidWorks, by Josh Mings

Creating Fillets using Hold Lines, by Alex Ruiz