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Circles, arcs, slots, and ellipses

Circles, arcs, slots, and ellipses - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Circles, arcs, slots, and ellipses

- For this video, we're going to be learning about circles, arcs, slots, and ellipses. Let's jump right in, first thing let's go ahead and start a sketch right here and I'm going to choose the front plane. All right, the first one is the circle command. Now the circle command of course is pretty straightforward and simple to understand. However, we have this little dropdown next to the Circle command, which gives us a couple different options. When we have the centerpoint circle the other one is a perimeter circle. We'll start with the first one here, click where you want the center to be, drag out the circle to whatever size you want. And notice as I do that, I get this little popup thing here. I can type in one point five just like that, it'll automatically add a dimension for us. Now, if you don't have that turned on, it's available right up here under your options. And if you come down here to sketch in this…

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