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Using the Rectangle tool

Using the Rectangle tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Rectangle tool

- The rectangle tool is basically just four lines with some automatic relationships added. So if you click on Sketch, starting a sketch maybe on the front plane, you can see under the rectangle tool, drop down and you can see that I've got quite a few different ways to create rectangles. The very first one is a corner rectangle, and if I click on the origin, and just drag out a rectangle, you can see I've got a head's up display telling me the x and y coordinates of how big my rectangle is going to be. You don't have to worry about that exactly because we're always going to change that later by adding a dimension or some type of relationship. But just click roughly where you want it to be and notice as soon as I've done that I got four individual lines and automatic relationships showing me that these two on the side are both vertical, the top and bottom lines are horizontal. That creates a perfect rectangle. I have the ability to click and drag that around on the screen. I can grab…

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