From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training
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System options, units, and templates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training
System options, units, and templates
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be taking a look at some system options, units and templates. Now, the first thing I want to point out is, we need to be working in a system that we understand. So, if you're using the metric system, you probably want to be in milometers, or kilograms. If you're in America, you probably want to be using inches. Down here, at the bottom right hand corner of the screen, in this, we have a little fly up, so I can choose, meter, kilogram, second, or millimeter, gram, second, or inch, pound, second. So I can easily switch, to a different unit system, very easily, just right there at the bottom of the screen. If you want to get into some more detail, you can click on this little gear icon at the top, under options, in there, we've got the document properties, so we can choose a bunch of different options here, like units. Notice, we can again see those exact same options, so I can switch over here to inch, pound, second, if I wanted to, I can…
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Creating sketches6m 44s
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Understanding relationships7m 50s
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Using the Extrude feature5m 57s
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Using the Extruded Cut feature4m 57s
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Creating revolved features4m 8s
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Making revolved cuts3m 19s
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Applying materials, colors, and finishes3m 25s
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Finding mass properties2m 25s
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System options, units, and templates4m 49s
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Working with dimensions5m 12s
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