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

By admin | September 16, 2009

“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 [...]

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Creating A Tube With Normal To Surface End Cutoffs, by Anna Wood

By admin | June 4, 2009

“This was a question posed a few weeks ago on the SolidWorks Forums. How do you model a tube with an end cutoff normal to the surface of the tube? This is the type of cut that would be created with a laser. The tube is held in a chuck that rotates the tube around [...]

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