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5 Tip Ninja Attack Smack to Reorient Geometry in SolidWorks *Updated*

08 Dec, 2009 by in CAD

Two facts. There’s nothing that will hone your sense more than realizing you could be riddled by shurikens at any moment and… it takes phenomenal ninja skills to reorient geometry in SolidWorks. Ninja skills, or a fair amount of flailing about like a crazed shuriken thrower, which is exactly how I came upon five tips to help you change up geometry orientation, in SolidWorks, that will totally make you look cool to people who care about that.

Changing geometry is actually really easy within some parts, and a trial of a thousand fires with others.

We’ll take the middle road, so as not to become too badly scarred, and show you the steps you need to consider when attempting such dangerous feats of modeling mastery. We’ll start with an innocent looking knob…

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