From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
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Working with planes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
Working with planes
- [Instructor] At this point in the course more than likely you know that most sketches need to start on a face, or a plane. Now by default, we have these three fundamental planes when we open up a brand new part. We have the front plane, we have the top plane, and we have the right plane. We also have individual faces of a part that we can start sketching on to create holes. But what happens if we need to create a hole at some type of a funny angle, or we don't have a plane or a face right where we need it to start working on? That's when we need to really start creating our own plane. So to do that, come up here to features, come over here to Reference Geometry, click on the dropdown, and click on plane. Now we have three references, so first reference, second reference, and third. Now you don't need all three of those, it all depends on what you start from. If you choose an existing plane, you only need pretty much one reference. If you choose basically a line, you probably need…
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