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Checking out virtual sharps

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Checking out virtual sharps

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- [Instructor] For this week's tip, we're going to be talking about virtual sharps. So in my first example here you can see I've got two straight lines segments, I have an eight inch long segment, and a 10 inch long segment, and I'm going to go ahead and add a fillet right over here. Click on the Fillet Tool, type in half of an inch, and go ahead and choose this point right there. Click on OK, and now I have that little fillet, and notice the dimensions here, continue on to where these two lines intersect, and what that is called is a virtual sharp position. Now if you already had those line segments and you added the radius first, SOLIDWORKS automatically knows that, more than likely, you'd prefer to add a dimension to the virtual sharp, and it keeps it that way, so it's pretty handy. Now If I go over here to my next example, and I add a dimension, and I click on this line right here, it gives me only that length. If I go ahead and I click on this point here, out to this radius here,…

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