- [Instructor] Now that I have my sketch created,
I need to create my initial solid.
You'll notice that in Part Design
some of the features are grayed out.
The pad feature is currently active.
The pocket feature is currently grayed out.
And the reason behind this is
pad creates and adds material.
Pocket creates and removes material.
Currently I do not have any material
to remove anything from,
thus the pocket is not active.
So here, I'm going to select pad.
Once I select my pad
it's asking me what do I want to pad out?
So I need to specify my profile.
Once I pick my sketch,
pad takes that into account.
And now I enter in the size of my pad.
I can manually enter in my input.
I can grab the limit and drag it out.
And I have various other options
contained here within my pad definition.
So now that I have pad specified to the size that I want,
I simply select OK.
And you'll notice that in the tree,
I have my pad.
The parent is Sketch.1
and it is nested underneath the pad.
This in indicating, this is the parent,
the pad is the child.
So the sketch is driving the pad.
Now you'll also notice that the rest of the features
within Part Design, are now available.
Because I have solid mass or volume
that I can now remove
using a pocket, or a groove, or a whole.
I have those features now available
that I can remove material from
the initial volume that I created.