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Sketching polygons

Sketching polygons - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Sketching polygons

- [Lecturer] Let's talk about polygons. Now poly means many, and gons means angles, so that's many angled shapes, and we have the ability to create those inside of SOLIDWORKS. Right up here under the sketch tab, in the ribbon bar, let's go ahead and choose polygon right here. And let's choose that front face or front plane. Now, right over here on the left-hand side, notice we have some parameters and it's saying, how many sides do we want to have in our polygon? All right, we can have all the way down to three, can't have two, you got to have three, so you can have a triangle, and we can go up to as many sides that you'd like, and then we can define how that shape will be created, whether it's an inscribed circle or a circumscribed circle. So what that means is for an inscribed circle, let's go ahead and try the triangle out. Let's draw one out right here. You can see the inscribed circle is this circle right in here…

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