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Making your first CAD drawing

Making your first CAD drawing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Making your first CAD drawing

- [Instructor] This movie is going to be the quick start for creating a drawing. Now, a drawing can be built from either a part or an assembly. In this case, I'm going to be doing a drawing of this part here you see on the screen. All right, let's go ahead up to File and come down here to make, there it is. Make Drawing from Part. That's going to pull up our drawing dialog box and right inside here I've got a bunch of different options. I can choose the size of the drawing. I'm going to choose this ANSI C size and depending if you've selected some other templates you can use those as well. But for right now, let's just go ahead and just choose this basic drawing, click on Ok. And there's our new drawing. And now I can bring in a view. So right over here on the right-hand side can see you got the front view, the top view, right, back and so on. Let's try the front view. So just drag that into our drawing and notice we…

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