From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning

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Instant3D - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Instant3D

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- [Instructor] When working in SolidWorks, another good performance tool is the instant 3D feature. Let's start a new part and take a look at how this works. I'm just going to make a new sketch on the front plane. Alright. Now with instant 3D on, I'm going to click on the contour. There we go. Now we've got it on. That's how you activate it, by the way. You just click it on or off. Now by clicking on the contour, you see I get this blue arrow when I highlight over it but it's orange otherwise? If you hold down your left mouse button and drag it out, you can see I'm instantly making a 3D body. I've got the ruler over here to set my depth. I'm just going to stop at some arbitrary point. Now you can see, though, that while it's highlighted, I have the option to turn draft on or off or turn it into a cut. Right now, I'm just going to turn draft on, and you can see I've got a dimension here for draft as well as a dimension for my extrusion which I can adjust. By hitting control Q, it…

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