From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
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Working with reusable sketches and blocks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
Working with reusable sketches and blocks
- Blocks are independent, non-solving sketches that can be used in a variety of ways inside of SOLIDWORKS. The most common would be to copy a sketch then use that sketch elsewhere in your design. By creating a block, all of the entities in the block become frozen and can be manipulated as a whole. We can save blocks for later as well as use in open blocks that are created in the SOLIDWORKS format as well as the AutoCAD DWG and DXF formats. To insert an existing block, all we need to do is first locate it on our file system and start a sketch. Click on Sketch. Start a Sketch. And click on this top face here, and then we want to go ahead and turn on the Blocks toolbar. To do that, let's go up here to anywhere in the grey area, right click, and come down to Blocks. Once blocks is turned on, go ahead and click on that very first icon, which is Make Block, or come over here to this one over here called Insert Block. In this case, we don't have any existing geometry, so we're not going to…
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