Tip of the Day (selecting inner loops of faces)

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Seth Renigar, Dec 14, 2004.

  1. Seth Renigar

    Seth Renigar Guest

    Just found something that I never knew....

    In a sketch, when you select a face and convert edges, it only converts
    outer edges of the surface. If there are inner window/boss features from
    this face, these edges don't get converted.

    For some time now you have had the ability to right click an edge (of the
    window/boss) and click "select loop" in order to convert these edges. But
    when you do this method you always have to make sure that the arrow is
    pointing to the correct loop.

    Another method that my co-worker just figured out is a little quicker and
    easier with less mouse clicks. Simply select the face and one edge of the
    inner window/boss and convert. It will only convert the inner loop this way
    and you don't have to deal with the arrow.
     
    Seth Renigar, Dec 14, 2004
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  2. Seth Renigar

    P. Guest

    That's the old way of selecting a loop. I think you can pick multiple
    internal edges to select multiple internal loops. Very handy for
    filleting features that extend out of a common face but don't have
    tangent edges.
     
    P., Dec 15, 2004
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  3. Seth Renigar

    Seth Renigar Guest

    Didn't know it was an "old" method. For me it is a "new" method as I didn't
    know about it until now and I have been using SW since '96.

    It is amazing how even after that long of what I consider fairly advanced
    modeling techniques, I can stumble upon something like this that has always
    been there. Go figure...
     
    Seth Renigar, Dec 15, 2004
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  4. Seth Renigar

    Muggs Guest

    LOL!!!

    Well I knew about that long ago, BUT what I just found out about is RMB
    select chain.
    When did that arive?
    Man, I need to look around more.

    Muggs
     
    Muggs, Dec 18, 2004
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  5. Sorry, been there for some time...

    WT

     
    Wayne Tiffany, Dec 20, 2004
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