Tutorial: Business Card Holder
Chapter 5
Feature 1 – Lofted Base
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Feature 1 (cont.)
• At least two sketches are required for lofted solid
Guide Curve
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Feature 2 – Extruded Cut
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Feature 3 - Shell
• Shell command removes a face and leaves a constant-thickness thin structure
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Feature 5 - Fillets
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Feature 6 - Fillet
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Re-Ordering of Features
• By filleting after the shell operation, the wall thickness is not constant
• Better order of operations: add fillets first, and then shell the part
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Re-Ordering of Features (cont.)
Click & Drag
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Feature 7 – Raised Text
INTRODUCTION TO SOLID MODELING USING SOLIDWORKS 2009