From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching

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Make and edit blocks

Make and edit blocks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Make and edit blocks

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Making and editing blocks is pretty easy. All you have to do is select all the geometry and the dimensions that you want included in your block and then go to the make block feature. So here, I've just dimensioned and added some notes for this cutout. I'm going to select everything and up here I've got the block toolbar attached so that I can use it. I'm going to drag it out here so we can see all of the features. And I'm just going to click on make block. This is going to show me all the entities that are inside of it. And then if I want to, I can adjust the insertion point. So this is the point that it uses as reference to insert it every time we use it in the future. I'm just going to leave it at the default right now. I'm going to click okay. Now you can see okay, in our feature tree underneath our sketch we have a block created. I'm going to hit exit sketch and control Q and then save to save my part. (clicking sounds) and I've got that block. Now if I go back into the sketch I…

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