- The revolved cut feature allows us to take a basic shape
and revolve it around a center line to create a cut
into parts or multiple parts.
So let me show you how it works.
First thing I need to do is create a sketch
and I have a plane right here
which is the right plane, which goes right
through those two parts there, click on that one.
Let's go ahead and fire up a sketch.
I'm going to go ahead and start with a circle
and I'm going to snap it right here
to the midpoint of the ending line there,
and let's go ahead and then show you what's going to happen.
So right now,
if I were to create a regular cut, an extruded cut,
it would go through the part and you can have
multiple options here as far as like midplane.
And we can define how big that is going to be
or I can just grab this arrow here and drag it out.
And if I were to use that cut
it would just create a basic straight cut there.
If I looked right at that face, I'd say normal to it.
Notice it's a nice cutaway there,
but we're not here to learn how to do a regular extrude cut.
We want to do a revolved cut.
So let me show you the difference.
So let's delete this feature here
and to do a revolve cut,
we need to have something to revolve around
so we need an axis.
So come up here to 'Reference Geometry'
come down here to access and my selection.
I'm just going to choose the outside of this circle
or that cylinder, which will be then a circle.
Click Okay. And now I have an axis.
So now I can take this shape over here
and revolve it around that axis over there.
So here's my sketch. Here's my axis.
Let's go ahead and create a revolved cut.
And the first question it's asking me is:
What is my axis?
So I'm going to go ahead and choose that one right there
and notice what happens as soon
as I choose that it takes that sketch
and revolves it around 360 degrees to cut away that shape.
Now notice down here
under feature scope is all bodies are selected bodies
and click on this one.
Okay. And it's going to go ahead and cut that away.
Now that looks very similar to what we saw before.
But however, if we click
on this face here to look on normal to
you can see that actually it's not a straight cut.
It's revolving around that part,
so you have a nice, smooth cut.
Now we can add to our shape if we wanted to.
Come back over here to the revolve cut.
Under that revolve cut is a sketch.
Go back and edit that sketch.
This time let's add a basic triangle.
So here's my triangle.
I'm going to click over here and just drag it
into this shape right here.
All right.
Make sure that's connected.
Looks like it's not there it is.
Wait. Oh, okay.
Now we got a nice triangle.
Now when I exit out, I was expecting to get
a cut that went around this green cylinder here,
but I didn't.
So let's go back to that feature itself and see what's going
on. So edit the feature and notice down here
the feature scope, that part is not included.
So just click on all bodies, then click on Okay.
And now you've got a cut that's doing both parts.
It's cutting through over here, as well
as cutting that little triangle around the outside
of this part here.
So you can do a whole bunch of things with this tool
and you can choose which body,
if you have a multi body part like I do here,
is going to be affected by that tool.
Now, also going back over here to the cut-
go back to the extra cut feature.
We don't have to go all the way around, right?
We can also just go maybe
in one direction or for a certain amount of degrees.
So say type in
like something like 30 degrees.
You can see here I'm just going to be
cutting this direction here.
I'm just going to be making a very small cut
on this side over here.
I can also go in direction two,
so I can define how I want to cut in both directions.
I can choose the feature scope as well.
In fact, I can also choose selected contours, right?
So if I want to use just one of these shapes
I can just select, eh
I just want to use this guy over here, right.
Or if I want to use the other one
I can do that by just selecting
in that box and it's going to choose that sketch boundary.
And it won't be using this one over here
but I want to use both of them,
So let's go ahead and delete that out of that box.
Click on Okay.
You can see there.
I've just made that little revolved cut
that affects this part here, as well as this guy over here.
And again, you can do this.
You can set up as many different axes as you'd like.
You can have as much or as little
in your original sketch as you'd like.
And then just define how far you'd like to cut
around in your shape.
And that's what you need to know to
use the revolved cut feature inside of Solid Works.