SolidWorks How to Subtract a Part from Another (Solid bodies subtraction)

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SolidWorks tutorial on how to subtract apart from another. When I say Part, what I officially mean is a "Solid Body". When you are working with more than one solid body in SolidWorks aka. multi-body model, you might need to subtract one from the other. In this video, you will learn all you ever need to know about this feature in SolidWorks.

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[pulviner]

I've been searching for a week for this explanation. I've been trying to use cavities but that's way to hard, this is so much better. Thanks!!

[tristanmiller]

You need way more subscribers this is gold, entertaining, concise, helpful. This is such an underrated quality on YouTube

[sunilkhabia]

Thanks. Easy to understand and interesting gestures.

[ahmedghanim]

I have a problem that combine is hidden in the program and does not appear active. What is the problem?

[jypnmnu]

ma brother i like you and your fkn tutorials thanks for evrything 🤝

[hoangkhanhho]

Help me!! I can't open dialogue box keep body.

[trexinvert]

Thanks this was very useful for me. Your presentation is very direct and efficient. So many other SW videos are useless. They are "too long", "fumbling clicks" or "bad english". I will check out the rest of your tutorials. Keep on.

[zkonsin]

Is there a way to subtract one solid body from another, but still retain both bodies? I would like to use the features on the first body to create a hole in the second body, without loosing the original body. The way I do this now is by making a dummy copy of the first body, that ultimately gets deleted when I use the subtract feature. It works, but seems a bit kludgy.

[cheizaguirre]

That body to keep message doesn't appear for me where can i find it

[YGX]

Is it possible to cut with both bodies, keep them and only subtract the parts touching?

[lawrencejohnson]

Great video, thank you for producing. BTW is there a way to keep the "cutter" bodies?

[taavikoppel]

Is there a clever way to create a nice imprint with one body to another. Basically submerging the red body completely inside the green body... but in a way that enables you to physically place the red body into the green body if you were to 3D print it for example.
Like a nice little exact fitting box for the red body.
And to allow for some wiggle room... walls must be a little further away from the part and and shafts must be created smaller in order for the red body to fit in.

[simondemeulenaer]

I cannot find the Combine command. Neither with the search option or the insert feature option..

[meenboli]

Are these two parts in an assembly? I only have one 'part' in a part at a time?

[fluidos]

what if we want to retain, some bodies after subtraction. subtract totally removes the body, but if we want to split up into two different solids, how to do ?

[jaskarankaur]

Sir how do u make one part into another... I want to substrate a circular cylinder with protrusion from a solid box.... Can you please guild me

[dbp]

I forget to call them solid bodies too. :/

[Bianchi]

Nice info, how can we extract that combine to another part ? thanks :)

[InfotainmentVidyarthi]

What is meant by boolean geometry, could you educate on it :)

[jackoneil]

Just get to the point and speak clearly