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Line and Centerline tools

Line and Centerline tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Line and Centerline tools

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- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to be diving a little bit deeper into the sketch tools, and in this movie we're going to be focusing on the line and center line command. Let's go over and click on the sketch tool bar, click on sketch, let's go ahead and start a sketch on the front plane and come up here to the line command. If I click on the little twirl down, notice I've got three different line types. I have regular line, a center line, as well as a mid-point line. I'm going to choose that first line. And we've already looked at using the line command a little bit in previous movies, but I want to focus really on the method for using this command. So the first thing I want to do is use the click click method. So I click once where I want to start. Notice you get a little heads up display telling me how long that line is. And then I can drag that out to wherever I want and click again. And notice that command stays active. So I have a line that's being defined from that…

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