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Understanding relationships

Understanding relationships - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Understanding relationships

- In this movie, we're going to be learning about sketch relationships. Now we've already kind of covered how to create a sketch and how to modify a sketch, but let's go ahead and create a few lines and I'll show you what we're talking about. So I'm going to go ahead and choose the front plane start a sketch. And I'm going to go ahead and start with the line command. Here's my line command. Go ahead and grab that. I'm going to click once where I want to start and click again where we want to stop. All right, right here, let's take a look at the screen. You can see we've got these little yellow lines and those are helper lines. They're saying, hey, if you want to make another line and you want to make it at right angle to the original line, I can come down here and notice that little yellow box that pops up next to where my cursor is. And it's saying that if I were to click here, it would automatically add the relationship…

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