Overview
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Learn about the essential tools and functions for sketching in SOLIDWORKS. Discover how to leverage key sketch settings, use sketch and spline tools, approach 3D sketching, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Lines, rectangles, and the Parallelogram
- Slots
- Polygons
- Circles
- Arcs
- Ellipse, Parabola, and Conic
- Splines
- Text
- Sketch Fillet and Sketch Chamfer
- Offset and Convert Entities
- Intersection Curve
- Face
- Segment
- Trim and Extend Entities
- Split Entities
- Construction geometry
- Make Path
- Mirror and Dynamic Mirror
- Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale, and Copy
- Replace Entity
- Patterns
- Automatic Relations
- Automatic Solve
- Enable Snapping
- Shaded Sketch Contours
- Detach Segment on Drag
- Override Dims on Drag/Move
- Controls
- Inserting features
- Simplify
- Converting splines
- Fit Spline
- Show and hide options
- Smart Dimension
- Horizontal, Vertical, and Ordinate Dimension
- Path Length Dimension
- Measure tool
- 3D sketching
- 3D sketching on plane
- Editing in 3D
- Next steps
