Funnel Vision

A simple yet powerful feature introduced on the SOLIDWORKS Essentials Course is the shell feature. This allows you to remove faces of a part and apply a uniform wall thickness within it, particularly useful for injection moulded product. By delaying the stage at which we use the tool we can use it to enhance internal details from external ones, in this case bosses and fillets. What's more the shell feature can also product multiple thicknesses in different areas of a model for further reinforcement- i.e. the neck of a bottle.

 

I have created a simple funnel product; in the image below it has already been shelled out with the ‘inlet’ and ‘outlet’ faces removed.