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Arc length - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Arc length

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- [Instructor] For this weeks tip, I want to focus in on the arc length dimension. Now you might not even know that the arc length dimension exists because SOLIDWORKS has kind of hidden this behind the scenes. So let me show you how it works. Head up here to Smart Dimension, click on that. Now I can choose this arc here and dimension it and that will define the radius of it, so I can say maybe two inches, that looks good. I could come down here, I could dimension from one point to the other point, actually we forgot to grab the Smart Dimension, let's grab that one more time. Grab the Smart Dimension tool, grab these two points and come over here, let's type in something like 3.5. Now that's defining the length between the two end points. But what if we wanted to know how long is it, or if I wanted to find how long is it all the way around the outside here. So to do that, let's go ahead and just delete this one first. Now what I'd like to do is come back up to the Smart Dimension tool.…

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