From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning

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Instant2D

Instant2D - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Instant2D

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- [Instructor] One of the features you'll want to leverage to increase your performance in SolidWorks is going to be the Instant2D feature. This is key to improving your sketches and speeding up the process of sketching complex designs. Let's take a look. I'm going to open an new part and open a new sketch in the front plane. I'm going to start with a center rectangle and you can see I have Instant2D turned on. Let's turn it off right now and enter some dimensions. Now you can see as I make these dimensions, the modify box pops up and I'm just going to enter them in as I normally do. So as you can see I can single click on a dimension, drag it. I can drag the points and move the dimension if I want. And this is all part of the regular sketch dimensioning tools and sketch tools. Now let's see what happens when I turn on Instant2D. So now when I single click on this, I'm given the option to change it. All right, so I'm going to type in 11, hit return. You can see it changed instantly…

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