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Special Features: Sweep, Loft and Wrap

Our part looks like this and "Revolve-Thin1" is added to the Feature Manager.

8.3. - Select the "Front Plane" and create the following sketch using an ellipse.

Switch to a Front view and select the "Ellipse" command from the Sketch tab in

the CommandManager or from the menu "Tools, Sketch Entities, Ellipse." To

draw an ellipse, first click to locate its center, click again to locate one axis and

again to locate the other axis. Add the corresponding dimensions between the

ellipse's points at the major and minor axes. Be sure to add a "Vertical" geometric

relation between the top and bottom points of the ellipse (or "Horizontal" between

left and right) to make them vertical (or horizontal) to each other to fully define the

sketch.

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.--------..,.----~ Sketches a complete ellipse. Select the
Features Sketch Direct Editing Evall ellipse center, then drag to set the

major and minor axes.
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When looking at a round surface's profile from an

orthogonal view we can add a dimension to its silhouette.

This option will be needed to add the 1.375" dimension.

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