SOLIDWORKS: Sketching

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.

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