From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
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Trimming and extending portions of a sketch - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
Trimming and extending portions of a sketch
- The Trim and Extend tools are some of the most useful tools in the Sketch toolbar. It allows me to create a bunch of geometry and then quickly just remove a bunch the corners and edges or extend them out to the other entities inside of that sketch. To get started, let's go ahead and click on "Trim Entities". You can see we have a bunch of different options of how we can trim. So starting at the very bottom here is "Trim to Closest," which is pretty self explanatory. If I click on a line itself, notice it highlights it kind of in a reddish or purplish color and it just will allow me to trim that away to the closest other line or intersection you see. Same thing over here. Same thing over here. If I undo those, bring them back, I can go back to Trim again and this time I'm going to "Trim away Outside". This one's looking for two lines or cut lines and I'm going to choose this line right here and this line right here. And what this is going to do, it's going to trim away any segment of…
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Trimming and extending portions of a sketch3m 44s
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Creating offset geometry3m 17s
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Moving, copying, and rotating elements2m 33s
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Erasing, undoing, and redoing actions2m 2s
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Using the Mirror tools1m 21s
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Creating repeating patterns in a sketch2m 37s
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Using construction lines to build robust sketches4m 43s
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Using the Convert Entities tool1m 32s
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Adding fillets and chamfers to sketches2m 47s
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