From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Trim tool enhancements

Trim tool enhancements

- [Instructor] For this weeks tips and tricks video, I want to show you some improvements to the trim command. Now, over here I have a sketch I'm going to go ahead and open up and edit that sketch. And head up to the Trim Entities command. Now, Trim Entities has been around for a long time, but we've got a couple of new boxes down here. Take a look at these. So keep trimmed entities as construction geometry, that sounds awesome. And then you have this other one called ignore trimming of construction geometry. So both of these are pretty powerful new features that have been added to the trim tool. Now let's take a looK at how those work and let's not turn on either one of the options. So I'm going to use the power trim mode, I'm going to go up here and just drag through these lines and you can see they all just get cut away, all right. Just like they've always done. Now let's go up ahead and click on undo. Come back up here again to the trim command and let's turn it on. Now I'm going…

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