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Draw lines

Draw lines - Inventor Tutorial

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Draw lines

- [Tutor] I wanted to take a moment and congratulate you. You're to the point in the course where we can actually begin creating geometry. And to do that, we're going to start by drawing lines in a sketch. Lines are the most basic, simple piece of geometry that you can create. They're also the most common thing you'll use in Inventor. To create a line we need to do two things. We need to first start a new sketch which can be done by going to the 3D Model tab under the Sketch panel and selecting Start 2D Sketch or we can right-click in the graphics window and select New Sketch. This will present the origin geometry and we can select the X, Y plane to begin sketching on. You can see now we're on the Sketch tab and we have finished sketch active. Let's go ahead and pan down into the left to give us a little more room to draw. Now we can start creating our lines. To do that we can either go to the Sketch tab under…

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