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Using the Rectangle tool

Using the Rectangle tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Rectangle tool

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- [Instructor] As we continue our journey through our sketch tools inside of SolidWorks, the next thing on our list is the rectangle tool. Now I already have a sketch opened up here and up here in the ribbon bar, you can see I've got a corner rectangle, and if you click on the little drop down, you can see we've got a whole bunch of types of rectangles we can create. So clicking on corner rectangle here, choose the front plane. If I click once where I want to start, I can click again where I want to end, and it just creates a simple rectangle. Now notice how SolidWorks is doing this for us. It creates four basic lines, and then it just adds a vertical relationship here, here, and a horizontal there and there. So what that means is I can never take that rectangle and rotate it around, right? Because this line is always going to be horizontal. This one's always going to be vertical. So if you did want to try to modify…

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