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Circles and arcs

Circles and arcs - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Circles and arcs

- [Narrator] For this video, we're going to be learnin' about the circle command as well as some arcs. So to get started, let's go ahead and fire up a sketch on the front plane and here we go. So the first thing we're going to look at is the circle command. And notice on the drop down, you've got a regular circle as well as a perimeter circle. So let's choose the first one there. And wherever I click is going to be the center, and where I drag out, I'm going to create the size or defining what the radius of my circle is. When I click again, it is making that circle. And notice that your icon is still a circle icon, so anywhere I click again, it's going to keep making more and more circles. When you're done with making the circles hit the escape key on your keyboard to turn that off. All right, to jump back into the circle command, come back up here again, you could look at these ones here. And notice over here, I…

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