SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching

Learn advanced sketching techniques in SOLIDWORKS, including working with blocks, 3D sketching, and sketching in drawings.

Introduction

• Advanced sketching in SOLIDWORKS

1. Sketch Entities

• Basic sketch entities review
• Customizing the S key for sketching
• Plane
• Route Line
• Belt Chain
• Derived sketch
• Sketch from a drawing

2. Sketch Tools

• Create a sketch from Selections
• Repair Sketch
• SketchXpert
• Align
• Modify
• Close Sketch to Model
• Check Sketch for features
• Sketch Picture
• Area hatch/fill
• Mirror

3. Blocks

• Traditional blocks and libraries
• Make and edit blocks
• Inserting blocks
• Save a block
• Explode blocks

4. Advanced Spline Tools

• Style spline
• Spline on a surface
• Equation Driven Curve

5. Relations

• Relations
• References

6. 3D Sketching

• 3D sketching
• Rapid sketch
• Editing in 3D

7. Sketching in Drawings

• Sketching in Views vs. Sheets
• Formatting entity properties

8. Curves

• Split Line
• Projected
• Composite
• Helix/Spiral

Conclusion

• Next steps