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Circles and arcs

Circles and arcs - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Circles and arcs

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- [Instructor] For this video, we'll be learning 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'll look at is the circle command and notice to dropdown, 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 making the circles hit the escape key on your keyboard to turn that off. All right, to jump back up into the circle command come back up here again. You can look at these ones here and notice over here I also have the ability to switch…

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