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