From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching
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Repair Sketch - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching
Repair Sketch
- [Presenter] One of the more powerful features that you're going to want to leverage in the sketch toolbar is going to be the Repair Sketch feature. Now, the sketch I have here looks simple, but it's actually a little bit more complicated. So, I've got overlapping geometry and somewhere in here I've also got gaps, but it's not entirely obvious where they might be just by selecting and clicking around. This is a pretty simple example, but sometimes you can have very large, convoluted 2D geometries and it's really hard to chase the chains or the loops and see where breaks are. And, at the end of the day, sometimes you just want to have a nice closed contour. So, now using the Repair Sketch feature, what this is going to do is automatically take any overlapping geometry and remove it. And then it's going to find any gaps in a potential closed contour and bring your attention to where they are and it's going to zoom into them so you can see where each one is on the sketch. So, in this…
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Create a sketch from Selections2m 32s
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Repair Sketch2m 15s
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SketchXpert1m 32s
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Align1m 11s
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Modify2m 41s
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Close Sketch to Model1m 52s
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Check Sketch for features1m 48s
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Sketch Picture3m 55s
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Area hatch/fill3m 3s
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