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Working with dimensions

Working with dimensions - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with dimensions

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to cover the smart dimension tool inside of SolidWorks. Now smart dimensioning, as it sounds is a tool that automatically figures things out for you. It's smart. But we also have below that smart dimension tool, we have other dimensions, just like a horizontal dimension or vertical baseline, a chain dimension, ordinant dimension and we have all these different types of dimensions. And what a smart dimension tool does, is it kind of figures out depending on what I'm doing, which one of these dimensions to use. So let me show you the basics for just creating a very simple dimension. I'm just going to come down here and grab this line here, click on that and just drag out a dimension. So wherever you click is going to place that dimension. And then I can type in a value here. So I can type in like 3.0. And notice the part will automatically adjust to that size. And now we've defined a…

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