SOLIDWORKS Surfacing to Repair and Streamline Parts 3/3 - Improve Fillets

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Surface modeling techniques are compelling for creating complex models, but they are also extremely useful for fixing existing models. In this 3-part video series, our expert Kali Gonzalez shows you three typical part examples you might encounter in your models or when importing geometry from neutral file formats and walks us through simplifying, repairing, and streamlining problematic geometry.

Video #1: Simplify Geometry    • SOLIDWORKS Surfacing to Repair and Streaml...   A drill bit model includes many unnecessary faces and weird curvature using the following techniques:
Delete and Patch faces
Intersection Curves
Fit Spline
Boundary Surface
Replace Face
Delete Body
Curvature Analysis
Cut with Surface
Fileset: https://bit.ly/35NXfu4

Video #2: Repair Geometry    • SOLIDWORKS Surfacing to Repair and Streaml...   An imported model contains a geometry error that cannot be fixed with import diagnostics but is rebuilt using the following techniques:
Import Diagnostics with Automatic Repair
Convert solid to surface with Delete Face
Surface patching techniques
Copy and Extend Faces
Surface Fillets
Knit surfaces into a solid
Fileset: https://bit.ly/3vLPcII

Video #3: Improve Fillets    • SOLIDWORKS Surfacing to Repair and Streaml...   A connecting rod requiring fillets has many intersecting features close together, creating a sub-optimal corner where the fillets meet. The problematic region is removed, trimmed up, and replaced using the following techniques:
Take advantage of Symmetry
Split Body
Delete Face
Spline on Surface
Trim Surface
Boundary Surface
Knit surfaces into a solid
Pattern bodies
Fileset: https://bit.ly/3xNOEne