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Using the Spline tool

Using the Spline tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Spline tool

- [Narrator] Splines are one of the most powerful and complicated of the sketch entities. Let me show you how they work. Right up here under the spile tool, I can actually click on the drop-down, I can see there is multiple ways to create splines. So we have the spline here. We have a style spline And we can also create a spline on a surface or on an equation driven curve, but right now let's just focus on regular splines as well as style splines. So I'm going to choose a regular spline here and go ahead and choose the front plane. And I can click where I want to start and then I can click where I want to end. And notice that tool stays active. Now if you actually hit escape at any point in time, that will turn that off and this turns into what would look like a regular line. However, it's not. This is actually a spline. See, you can grab these little controls here and you can move those controls around to create…

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