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Create reference lines for sketches

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Create reference lines for sketches

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- I was recently asked how to create a reference line, that's the same length as multiple curves or sections of a sketch. Now I figured that'd probably be a pretty good tip to teach, so, here we are. Alright, so in the sketch here, I've got a couple different things drawn up here. So I have a edit sketch, and I've got a length here. I've got a length down here, and I have an angle and I want to make this line down here, the same length as the parts of this. So this is maybe like we can see like, in a sheet metal component, if you see, like, if I add a bigger radius, was it due to my flat pattern length? You might be, you know, trying to solve some kind of a question like that, and here's how you do it. So I have the length here, and I have the length here, but what I really need is the length of this line here, the length of this line here, and the length of this line right here. Okay. So we know how to add the length…

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