From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Freehand sketching in Sketch Ink - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Freehand sketching in Sketch Ink

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- Hey guys, if you have a Cintiq tablet or any pen or touch device, you can use SolidWorks and actually sketch directly on the screen. And if you don't have one, hey, you probably might want to go out and get one. So first things first, let's go ahead and turn on that toolbar. So up here under Sketch, if you click up there, under any of those tabs, you're going to get the full list here, I'm going to go ahead and turn on sketch ink. Click over to that tab, and let's go ahead and start a sketch. I'm going to do it in the front plane. And now we're in a basic sketching environment. So I can draw anything I want, it's a conceptual sketch, it's not real SolidWorks geometry yet. So it doesn't really matter what you draw. So I'm going to go ahead and just draw something shaped like this. I can continue on drawing. Something like that. You might want to turn into a 3D style sketch, you know I'm just conceptualizing some artwork here of maybe a part that we might be creating in SolidWorks in a little while. Alright, start defining this a little further. You can add some dimensions in here, right? And just add this stuff to your drawing. Now this might just be a rough sketch that later on you're going to go into regular SolidWorks tools and create. But right now I've just given the ability to conceptualize this thing, all in SolidWorks before doing anything else, and when you're done with your little sketch, you can just jump right back out of that and it's a sketch that's like any other sketch you'd see inside of SolidWorks. So that is using the sketch ink toolbar with a pen or touch device, and you have the option to take and use your finger if you don't have a pen by clicking on this little button up here called ink with touch. But if you didn't, that's how you do it. It's a great new tool that's been added in SolidWorks 2019.

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