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Basic steps for 3D modeling

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Basic steps for 3D modeling

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be covering the basic steps for creating a model inside of SolidWorks. To get started, I'm going to cover the six steps of modeling. The first one is to select a face or a plane. When you first get started at SolidWorks, you don't have anything besides the three fundamental planes, and so you have to choose one of those to get started with. Number two is starting a brand new sketch on one of those fundamental planes, or if you work through the model a little bit, you have some planes or faces you can choose, then go ahead and choose those. Once we've started a new sketch, we want to draw some geometry. And then we want to take that geometry and we're going to tie that geometry in to the origin, so it knows where it is in space. We're going to add relationships and dimensions to that geometry. And then go ahead and create the feature. Whatever it's going to be, it's going to…

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