From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sketching
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Circles
- [Narrator] Creating circles and sketches is a pretty straight forward process and doesn't really take too much skill. I'm going to go ahead and start a new sketch on the front plane and go up to my circle features here. Now from the drop down we can see we only really have two feature types available, the regular circle or the perimeter circle. I'm going to start by selecting regular circle. You can see as I go down here into the property tab you still have the same selection options to change it to a perimeter circle or a regular circle. You can also see, like other features, it gives you what the steps are when you create it. So for the regular circle first I'm going to select the midpoint and then the radius of the circle. So I'm selecting the midpoint, dragging out in to space. You can see on the right where my pointer is that it gives me a reading of what my radius is as I drag it out. And I can go ahead and select the second point and that's defined. If I wanted to make a…
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