You use local operations when you want to perform operations on certain portions of a model, but not on others.
In this lesson, you design a double-ended measuring cup. You need to shell
the two cups and fillet them. However, you do not want to shell the piece that connects
the two cups. You can create the part and perform the feature operations on the separate
bodies.
This lesson demonstrates:
- Designing a part using the local operations technique
- Creating the connecting piece that attaches both measuring cups
You need the sample part, multi_local.SLDPRT,
to complete this tutorial.
Download, extract, and open the required sample
file for this tutorial:
- Click here to download multibody.zip to your Downloads
folder.
For
more information on downloading and managing sample files, see Sample Files.
- 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.
- In the multibody folder,
open multi_local.SLDPRT.