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Creating sketches

Creating sketches - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating sketches

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- In this movie, we're going to be diving in-depth into creating sketches and some of the idiosyncrasies of how we can create them in Solidworks. So we've already looked at this a few times now as far as creating a sketch, we need a face or a plane. I'm going to go ahead and choose the front plane here. And then I'm going to go ahead and choose a sketch. This is one way we can easily do that just by clicking on the in-context window that pops up, start a sketch. Okay, now the main requirement for a sketch is that we need to have an enclosed boundary, right? And we want to tie things into the origin. We want to fully define everything. But those are not hard requirements. Those are good design practices, so we want to do that if we're actually designing something. But in this movie we're really looking at just how sketches are created. So let's go ahead and start with a circle. Here's my circle, I'm going to draw it over…

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