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Formatting entity properties

Formatting entity properties - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Formatting entity properties

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- [Narrator] When you're sketching in a drawing, sometimes you want to do things like change the line weight, change the appearance, the color, the thickness, all of those things. By default, you don't see those options on your GUI so what you're going to want to do is right click on the command ribbon. Go down to where it says line format and this is going to bring the line format tool bar up. Now if you select any sketch or sketch entities that you have in a drawing, I'm going to select this line for example, I can go down here and select the line color and change that. Right now it's set to the default blue, but I'm going to change that to red. Go ahead and click okay and then when I click off it, you can see that that line is now red. Now you'll notice when I zoom in and out of the line, they basically hold the same relative thickness no matter how far you are zoomed in and out. I mean in reality a lot of times you're printing out these drawings on actual paper. That line has an…

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