From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling a Bicycle

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Create tube drawings

Create tube drawings - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Create tube drawings

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- [Instructor] Now you may have just been taking this course in order to practice your SolidWork skills, but maybe you actually want to build this frame in real life. If so, then we need to somehow transfer these virtual parts into the real world. So let's have a look at the model. If you're starting fresh at this point and using the exercise files, then unzip the chapter six files to a new folder and open the assembly file for chapter six. So to make this frame, first we need to cut out all of these tubes to the correct length. So let's have a look at this top tube, for example going to zoom in, going to click on the tube and press open parts. Now to measure the length of the tube is reasonably easy. We can just start sketch on the right plane, then we can get a center line and draw two vertical center lines, one at each end. Then we can zoom in, we can select the line, also select an outer curve of the tube, and then…

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