From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Engineering Drawings

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Datum feature

Datum feature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Datum feature

- [Narrator] Creating a datum feature inside of solid works is pretty easy. And when you're doing geometric tolerancing and dimensioning, you'll want to take advantage of this. If we go to the annotation tab in the top of our command manager, we'll find in the center, datum feature. If we click on this, it brings up our property manager. Now, if you've created multiple datums or you're trying to reestablish a datum that you've already created before, you can edit the label right here. We also have several options for the leaders, but I'm just going to simply go out onto the screen, select the surface right here, click on it once and now I can flip up or down by dragging the mouse. Select again, to place my datum. Now you'll notice that the datum feature stays open similar to a lot of the other annotation features that we use inside of solid works. If, for example, you wanted to attach a datum feature to a geometric…

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