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SOLIDWORKS: Sketching

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Course Description

Overview

Learn about the essential tools and functions for sketching in SOLIDWORKS. Discover how to leverage key sketch settings, use sketch and spline tools, approach 3D sketching, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Exercise files
1. Sketch Entities
  • Lines, rectangles, and the Parallelogram
  • Slots
  • Polygons
  • Circles
  • Arcs
  • Ellipse, Parabola, and Conic
  • Splines
  • Text
2. Sketch Tools
  • Sketch Fillet and Sketch Chamfer
  • Offset and Convert Entities
  • Intersection Curve
  • Face
  • Segment
  • Trim and Extend Entities
  • Split Entities
  • Construction geometry
  • Make Path
  • Mirror and Dynamic Mirror
  • Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale, and Copy
  • Replace Entity
  • Patterns
3. Sketch Settings
  • Automatic Relations
  • Automatic Solve
  • Enable Snapping
  • Shaded Sketch Contours
  • Detach Segment on Drag
  • Override Dims on Drag/Move
4. Spline Tools
  • Controls
  • Inserting features
  • Simplify
  • Converting splines
  • Fit Spline
  • Show and hide options
5. Dimensions
  • Smart Dimension
  • Horizontal, Vertical, and Ordinate Dimension
  • Path Length Dimension
  • Measure tool
6. 3D Sketching
  • 3D sketching
  • 3D sketching on plane
  • Editing in 3D
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

David Antanavige

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