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Working with planes

Working with planes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with planes

- [Instructor] At this point in the course you probably already know, to start a sketch, we need a face or a plane, to start drawing on. Now, what happens If we are tryina' create a hole or something like that, and angle and there's not a face or a plane that's available for us to draw. That's when we have to go back into SOLIDWORKS and create our own plane. So, if I head over here to features, and I come up here to reference geometry and directly below that is this thing called plane. All right, now notice we got first reference and second reference and third reference. Now depending on how powerful the object you choose or the face you choose or the plane you choose is, the less that you actually need. So if you're choosing a face itself, or a plane, you only need one reference. So let me give you an example. Right over here I'm going to' go ahead and choose something like this plane right here. So the top plane.…

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