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Create and use reference blocks

Create and use reference blocks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Create and use reference blocks

- [Instructor] For this tip, I want to show you how we can create a reference block in one part and then go ahead and use that reference as a start for a new sketch in a new part. So to do that, there's a couple different ways but one of the easiest ways is to actually just click on this top surface. So right over here, you can see I've got the circuit board, it's got a bunch of holes here. I don't want to recreate all that work, right? So let's just go ahead and copy this entire top surface here. To do that, I can right-click and then just kind of scroll through this menu here. I'm using a small screen so it's a little bit harder to see everything at once but you want to search for the Export to DXF/DWG. Click on that one right there. It should open up your Save As dialog box here and let's go ahead and just save that as the T138. Click on save and then come over here and it's asking us what we'd like to export. So you…

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