SOLIDWORKS: Surfacing

Get up to speed with the surfacing tools within SOLIDWORKS fast. Learn how to create and modify surfaces, troubleshoot common issues, and manipulate faces in surfaces and solids.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Sketching for Surfaces

• Planes for surfaces
• Spline creation
• 3D curve creation

2. Surface Creation Tools

• Working with the Extruded Surface tool
• Making revolved surfaces
• The Swept Surface tool
• Building a lofted surface
• Boundary surface creation
• Filled Surface tool
• Making a planar surface
• Working with the Freeform surface command
• How to offset a surface
• Creation of a ruled surface

3. Surface Modifiers

• Extending surfaces
• Trimming surfaces
• Untrimming surfaces
• Using the Knit Surface tool
• Adding in fillets
• Thickening surfaces

4. Using Surfaces with Solids

• Fixing corners
• Fillet problems
• Using the Up to Surface command
• Cut with surface
• Making a thickened cut

5. Direct Editing Tools

• How to delete a face
• Moving faces
• Replace Face command

Conclusion

• Goodbye