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Understanding relationships

Understanding relationships - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Understanding relationships

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- In this video, we're going to be talking about sketch relationships. So, the first thing you need to do is start a brand new sketch. I'm going to go over here to sketch, start a sketch and let's go ahead and use the front plane this time. Now, let's go ahead and create a line. Now, I can use the line command, start where I want to drag at the line to and then just kind of place a line and notice this line here, it's just kind of free floating. Grab the end point to move it around. I can grab the line itself and drag that around the screen. Now, if you want to continue making lines, you can click over here back to the line command. Start from this line, here and notice as I kind of go on a horizontal fashion, notice I get this little heads up display, telling me the length of the line, and saying it's 180 degrees and it's also saying that this line, if I click right now, it's going to place a horizontal relationship. Notice that little yellow box right here? So, click on that, it…

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