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Creating sketches

Creating sketches - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating sketches

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- [Narrator] Creating sketches is one of the fundamental tools inside of SOLIDWORKS. In this movie we're going to be covering some of the basics. The first thing I want to do is go ahead and create a brand new part, Click on OK, and to get started in a sketch, I have a couple of different options here. I can choose one of these planes over here on the left, I can come up here to the Sketch bar and click on Sketch, whole bunch of options. So in this case I'm going to choose something like the front plane. It doesn't really matter, you can choose pretty much any one of the planes, but I like to think about it like the top plane is kind of like the floor, the front plane and the right plane are kind of like walls. So depending on the part you're designing, you might want to choose the plane that makes the most sense. If you're going to create a tabletop, I'd probably choose the top plane. If you're going to create a picture on the wall, I'd probably choose the right plane or the front…

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