From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle Engine with SOLIDWORKS

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Sketching the flywheel

Sketching the flywheel - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle Engine with SOLIDWORKS

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Sketching the flywheel

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- We will be starting with the bottom end of our engine, and in this video we will sketch out the necessary contours for the extrusions to block out our design. First create a new part using the Part Import from the My Template tab. Save and name the file to a location of your choice. I will name my file as 01<u>01</u>FlywheelSketch. Saving up front is a good practice and will allow us to simply do a keyboard Control-S to save as frequently as we deem necessary. My preferred method of starting a sketch on a plane is to left-click on the Relevant Plane icon within the Feature Manager, and then select the Sketch command from the Context toolbar. Feel free to use other methods covered in the Essentials course if you prefer. Now let's start a new sketch on the front plane. I'm starting on the front plane since this is the orientation I want my front view to be when doing a drawing of this part. Since this is our first feature, the graphic view will automatically rotate normal to our…

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