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Line and Centerline tools

Line and Centerline tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Line and Centerline tools

- In this movie, we are going to be going over the line and center line tools. Just start drawing lines, I need to start a sketch, and I'm going to choose the front plane. Now up here on the toolbar you see I have both a line and then you see a dropdown next to that line which gives me the option for both the center line as well as the midpoint line. So click on just a regular line to get started. Now there's two different ways to create a line. The first one is the click click method, the second one is a click and drag method. So the click click method is just click right where you want to start, and then notice as soon as you've clicked once, this icon shows up underneath where your cursor is showing me that I'm in the line command and it's giving me a heads up display of how long this line is. Now I can spin this around as I go to vertical it gives me the option of adding an automatic relationship. As I come over here to horizontal, same thing. And down here again, a vertical…

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