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Sketching polygons

Sketching polygons - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Sketching polygons

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- [Voiceover] The polygon tool is one of the more powerful tools inside SolidWorks. And it's one of my favorite sketch tool, for sure. Let's go ahead and learn how to use it. So, under the Sketch Toolbar on your Polygon click on polygon, Now I've got this dialog box opened up over here, I can choose if I'd like to make a Construction Polygon, which is pretty helpful a lot of times. Then you can just define how many sides your polygon is going to have. In this case here I can just kind of push it up or down, so all the way down to a triangle, square, and so on. I can keep adding more and more sides. I can define if I'd like to have an inscribed circle or circumscribed circle, which is going to define the size of that polygon. You can also define where this polygon is going to end up, as well as the size of that circle and the angle. If you want to you just go ahead and click anywhere out on the screen and then drag out kind of radius of that polygon, click once, and then you're placed…

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