From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Geometry without in-context references

Geometry without in-context references - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Geometry without in-context references

- [Instructor] A lot of times when you're working on more complicated designs you've got reference geometry that you'd like to pull some of the data from, but you don't really want to create an in context reference. So in this case here, I've got what looks like a cutout or some kind of connector and I'm just using this as an example. But a lot of times you could do something like if you're going to build like a circuit board you might have like board you got from a board design guy. It's very complicated, and you just need to know where components might be. Or maybe you're working on another reference design from another software and you want to bring that in or a copy some data from it but you don't want to have a hard in context reference to that part. And so a good way to do that, is to create a block showing where the key components are in a part like this. So this is just a simple example. But what I going to do…

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