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Creating offset geometry - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2021 Essential Training
Creating offset geometry
- [Speaker] The offset entities tool is pretty much, one of the most powerful and useful tools that are in the sketch tool palette. It's going to save us a lot of time. And let me show you how it works. Right up here, under offset entities, click on that one there. It has a few options here. One is how much we want to offset by, if we want to add a dimension or not, if we'd like to reverse that, select the chain bidirectional. So let's just go and choose a circle here. And notice as soon as I do, I've got this little yellow line that goes around it. That's going to be my offset entity. Now over here, if I click on the little arrow, notice it'll flip it to the inside, so you can switch to the inside of the outside. If that's not what you wanted to do, we always come back over here offset entities again. You can also do the same thing right over here, by flipping that inside or outside. You can go bidirectional, you…
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Trimming and extending a sketch5m 13s
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Creating offset geometry4m 25s
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Moving, copying, rotating, and scaling4m 24s
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Erasing, undoing, and redoing actions2m 42s
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Using the Mirror tools2m 36s
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Creating repeating patterns in a sketch4m 8s
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Using construction lines4m 1s
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Using the Convert Entities tool2m 37s
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Adding fillets and chamfers to sketches2m 59s
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