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Creating your first 3D part

Creating your first 3D part - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating your first 3D part

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- This section of the course is called the Quick Start Guide. I'm going to be showing you a walkthrough of creating a part from a sketch. I'm not going to be covering every single thing I'm going to be doing because we'll be doing that later on in the course. The focus here is just to show you the steps required to go through and build a solid model. The first thing I want to do is click on the "New" icon here at the top and choose "part." Click on "okay" and the window opens up. Now the first thing I need to do is to create a sketch. You have to create a sketch on an individual face or plane. Now you can see there's nothing on the screen to start drawing on. So I need to choose one of the three fundamental planes to start with. Over here in the feature manager you can see I have a front plane a top plane, and a right plane. It doesn't really matter which one of these you choose but you do need to choose one of those to get started. Think of the front plane like something you might…

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