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Inserting blocks

Inserting blocks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Inserting blocks

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- [Narrator] To insert a new block into your sketch, you have a few different options. Now on my Block menu right here I can just click on Insert Block and go through the motions there. It asks me to select a plane just like I'm making a new sketch, I'm going to select the front plane. These are the open blocks that I already in memory and you see it gives me that by default. I can also browse and for my example I can go to my design library where I have many blocks already stored, and grab a block. I'm going to grab this logo from my work. And then I can just drop it in by clicking and if I want to drop multiple instances I just keep left-clicking until I'm happy then I can hit the green checkbox or escape to leave that. Then when we're done we hit the Edit Sketch button and now all of our changes are accepted. You can see when we inserted that it made its own new sketch with all the separate blocks inside of it. Now another way that we can insert a block is just by going to our…

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