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Dimensioning holes and curved features

Dimensioning holes and curved features - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Dimensioning holes and curved features

- If you're dimensioning holes, the best way to do that is under the Annotations toolbar, and using the Hole Callout Annotation. Go ahead and click on that one and then go over to here to one of those holes and click on any one of the edges. And you can see it automatically adds a thru hole, as well as a counterbore information for that hole. I can do the same thing with these other holes over here. And you can see, it does exactly the same thing. It defines the size of the hole, the countersink or counterbore, the angle and it does it all in one shot for you. But sometimes, there are holes on your drawing that are not that are not going to be very easy for us to just easily callout like this. So I'm going to give you an example of that. And in fact, this view here. If you click on that and click on View Layout Projected View, there's a hole right there above that and we want to take a look at what's going on in there. So, you can also do a Section View. So I can section this model in…

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