- The Trim Surface command allows us
to trim one surface with another.
To do that, let's go ahead up here to Trim Surface.
The first thing I'm going to do is to make sure I'm choosing
the Standard Trim Type and then choose
my Trim tool, that's going to be any existing surface.
And I'm going to choose this one right here.
As soon as I do that, I have the option to either
Keep my selections or Remove them.
So I'm going to go ahead and Keep them.
In this case here I'm going to choose this one.
That way it will show you that over here
it's going to be removing this section here
and keeping this one here,
and the blue is what's trimming them away.
So it's slicing that right in half.
As soon as I click on Ok, it removes this part back here
and keeps this part here, trimming with the surface here.
Now sometimes you might want to build a surface
like this one that you're not actually going to be using
in your model.
You're purely just going to be using that as your Trim tool.
Now if you happen to be doing that
you can always click on it, see where it is over here,
and come over here to Surface Bodies,
highlight it and just hide it later
so I'll just use it purely as a trimming tool.
If I want to bring that back, go ahead
and just click on Show, and there it is.
Now I can do the same thing over here again.
I can say Trim and this time I'm going to use this
as my Trim tool and I'm going to keep my selections
and I'm going to choose this one here.
That's just going to cut a hole through that surface.
And there it is, ok.
And if you wanted to get rid of this on the outside
again you can use that Trim tool one more time.
This time I'm going to use this piece here as my Trim tool.
This one here.
And then my pieces to keep,
or actually I want to switch over to Remove them this time.
I'm going to remove this piece here and that piece there,
but I'm going to keep this piece in the center.
Click Ok.
And there you have the Trim tool again has been used
to make that hole and then trim it out
to this outside surface.
So it's a very powerful tool.
You can probably be using that a lot
when you're working with SOLIDWORKS.
Surfacing tools, we're going to be trimming
and extending things quite a bit.
So a very, very powerful tool.
A very essential tool to use.
Pretty straight forward really just choose the Trim tool,
what you want to keep or remove and that's it.