Body Intersection Modeling Technique

In this lesson, you use the body intersection modeling technique to create a multibody part. Two solid bodies overlap one another, and you create one body from the intersecting volumes.

You need the sample part, multi_inter.SLDPRT, to complete this lesson.

Download, extract, and open the required sample file for this tutorial:
  1. Click here to download multibody.zip to your Downloads folder.

    For more information on downloading and managing sample files, see Sample Files.

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  2. Browse to the Downloads folder and extract multibody.zip to a convenient location.

    For example, to organize your tutorial sample files, create a folder in your Documents folder named tutorial_files. Then extract into that folder to create a subfolder named multibody that contains the SOLIDWORKS parts for the multibody tutorial.

  3. In the multibody folder, open multi_inter.SLDPRT.
You can also build the sample part. Click here to learn how
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