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Slots and ellipses

Slots and ellipses - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Slots and ellipses

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- One of my favorite tools inside of SOLIDWORKS is the slot tool. And there's a bunch of different ways to create slots. The very first option here is the straight slot. And I'm going to choose a front plane to draw on. And just click right where you want to start and then click again where you want to end the slot. And then slide your cursor up or down to create the radius or the diameter of wherever that slot is going to be. Click once again to stop that feature and define it's size. Now over here I can define where the x and y coordinates are, the width of the slot, or I can just come up here to the Smart Dimension and define the length... define a radius... and define where this is in space. I can maybe snap it to the origin and make it fully defined. I can then change things by double-clicking on a dimension, adjusting the size, and you have a fully-defined slot. Let's delete that, come back again. And this one I'm going to say a centerpoint slot. Start at the center point, drag…

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