- The Move Face command is really part of
the Direct Editing package inside of SolidWorks,
however, I wanted to show it because it uses
a lot of the same surfacing techniques
and it really is a great tool.
So first things first, let's go up to
Direct Editing toolbar, click on Move Face,
click on the outside of the cylinder here,
and click on Offset, and as soon as you click
on Offset here you can see, I can just type in
a value here, maybe half an inch,
and I can just expand the size of the cylinder.
Click OK and it just makes that modification,
and adds it as a feature in your tree.
Now I can do it again, I can say, Move Face,
and this time I can translate it,
so I can grab a feature itself,
I can just move that feature itself,
using these little triads.
You can see what happens here.
I'm not only moving the piece itself,
but I'm also moving the related entities.
Click on OK, and you can see it just moves it along.
Now if I were to do that one more time,
Move Face, and I just click on the face itself,
and this time I went a little bit past.
Click OK, then notice it fills in these holes for us.
So it really is a Direct Feature editing tool.
Now I can also go back and click on Move Face one more time.
This time instead of Translate or Offset
I'm gonna use Rotate.
I'm gonna choose some faces. So I'm gonna choose
this one, that one, this one, this one, and this one.
And then it's gonna ask me for a axis rotation,
and I'm gonna click in this box here,
and click on one of these edges,
and then type in a value, and watch what happens,
I can just take all those faces and surfaces
inside of that and just rotate it around that axis.
Click OK and it's just like it was there originally.
So, that's the Move Face command,
it's really powerful, especially if you're bringing in
a file like an IGES file or a STEP file.
Something that doesn't have a tree
you wanna jump into the Direct Editing tools,
and just like that, you can take a
series of surfaces and rotate them around the axis,
just like it was there originally.
This works great if you're bringing in
file types that are not native
SolidWorks files, like IGES or STEP files.
You can bring in the files, you can move the faces,
you can rotate 'em, you can translate 'em.
A lot of powerful features, almost like you had
a native SolidWorks file, but you really don't.
Even if you do have a native SolidWorks files,
sometimes there's some Direct Editing
things you can do, that you might not be able to do
as easy inside of the regular SolidWorks tools.
So these Direct Editing tools,
like Move Face, is a really handy thing
to use for this situation.