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Select Tangency

Select Tangency - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Select Tangency

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be learning about Select Tangency. Now Select Tangency's been available for a long time, but a lot of people don't know it's actually there, and what it can do, so I'm going to show you. Very quickly, we can easily select a face, like this one right here, and if I right click on that face, you've got this thing called Select Tangency, right here in this pop-up menu. If I choose Select Tangency, it automatically chooses all faces that are tangent to the one I selected. If I spin my part around, I can see it goes all the way round the entire part here and allows me to select everything at one shot. Pretty handy. Otherwise I'd have to hold down control, select this one here, select these faces by holding down control, move this part around, keep holding control, keep moving around. It's a lot of extra work you'd have to do, to do this, if you didn't have that Select…

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