From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching
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Relations - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching
Relations
- [Instructor] When working in sketches, it's important to understand the relations that exist inside of each sketch. Here I've just laid out some random sketch entities, but you can see already in the green boxes all the various relations that these have. This is just a corner rectangle, a center-point rectangle, a slot, a circle, and a polygon. Now you notice as I click on each one of these, in the left hand side of the Property Manager, we get a list of existing relationships and what relations can be added. So if we pick this circle, for example, we can fix it, but once we hold down Control and select this line, we can now create an equal curve length relation or a tangency relation. We can go into the Existing Relations window, right click and delete if we don't want to maintain those relations. If at any point we have failures in our sketch and we want to find out what's going on, we can go up here to the Display Delete Relations option. Click on that and it shows all the…
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