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Making an axis

Making an axis - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Making an axis

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- [Instructor] Anytime you're creating a revolved feature or some type of a circular pattern, we need to have an axis. Now, generally there's not an axis available where you want it, or if there is, you can turn it on. So I don't want to show you, right up here there are actually these sneaky little axes that are right over here called View Temporary Axes. So notice if we turn those on, they actually show up anywhere you see a circular face, so you can use those without creating more. But if you want to learn how to create more, let's go ahead and turn those off. Come up here to Reference Geometry. Come down here to Axis. And there's a whole bunch of ways we can do this, right? So we got a one-line edge or axis. That's pretty straightforward. Just choose like a line, like this edge here. And it'll just put a axis right there on that edge. Pretty straightforward. Up here, one more time. Let's go to this one, let's say two…

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