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Working with ellipses and conics

Working with ellipses and conics - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with ellipses and conics

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Ellipsis, conics and parabolas. Oh my, yeah, that's right. Let's get into it. Right up here on our sketch toolbar, right over here, you can see we have a icon for it in Ellipse and directly below that little twirl down there, you can see we've got the ellipse, we've got a partial ellipse, a parabola and our friend, the conic. Starting up here with the ellipse, let's click on that one. Click where you want to start. Click again where you pretty much want to end and then third is you're going to be defining whatever that width of that is. So you're going to click on the center point, click on one edge of it and then finally you're going to define what the skinny part of it, I guess, or the long part depending how you drag this out, click there and there you have it, okay. If you want to define this a little bit better, I do recommend adding in a center line. So come down here and grab a center line, snap that…

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