From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Quick switching between lines and arcs

Quick switching between lines and arcs - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Quick switching between lines and arcs

- [Voiceover] Switching from lines to arcs in SolidWorks sketches is very common, and I have a few quick tips to make it a lot easier. Traditionally, you'd go up here, choose the line command, and start drawing a line. Click once where you want it to start, click again when you want it to end, and then you can see that line will continue, and I can use some of these helper lines to line up if I want it to be co-linear or a specified angle, and then when you've got a couple lines here, you might want to switch over to the arc command. So I can either hit Escape and get out of that command here, go up to the tangent arc, and then choose the end point here, and continue drawing my arc. Now it's going to continue to stay in that arc command as long as I keep clicking, and if I want to get out of that, go ahead and hit Escape to turn it off. I can easily switch between the line and arc command by going up to the ribbon bar here, or I can use something like the shortcut bar by hitting the…

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