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Measuring

Measuring - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Measuring

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to be learning about the Measure command. Now the Measure command is used pretty much all the time while you're developing and designing a part, especially if you're not sure how big a feature is, and that really allows you to measure or interrogate your existing model to make sure you're designing correctly for it. So let me show you how you use that tool. It is available under the Evaluate toolbar, or you can also get to it several different ways through some shortcuts, but right now let's just go ahead and use the Evaluate toolbar. Come over here to Measure, and I'm going to pull that right over here so I can see it a little clearer. And let's go ahead and just choose the top surface there, spin my model around here, chose the bottom surface there, and you can see it gives me a dimension of 200mm. So that's the Measure command. That's really basic to use. You can also use…

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