From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching

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Rapid sketch

Rapid sketch - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Rapid sketch

- While it's not the same as creating a 3D sketch, creating a rapid sketch or using the rapid sketch feature can be very similar because it gives you the ability to quickly make sketches in different planes and surfaces in 3D space. So I'm going to go up my sketch tool bar and turn on rapid sketch. I'm going to go over and select the align feature and I'm going to just start drawing. So I'm going to do down here and you see, as I hover flat surfaces, their highlighted in gray, this is the surface that I'm going to actually start drawing my sketch on. So as I click, it activates that surface and I can draw some geometry on that. When I'm done, I just hit Escape, go back up here and pick another feature that I want to add, but it doesn't automatically assume that I want to use this face. I can, if I want, but if I hover over another face, it'll just start sketching on that face instead. Different in 3D space, so it's kind of like a 3D sketch in that way. I can also go over, without even…

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