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Replace Entity - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sketching
Replace Entity
- [Instructor] When editing sketches inside of SolidWorks, sometimes you want to manipulate geometry that has a dependency somewhere else in the sketch. In this sheet metal part, I've basically got a through hole that goes through both of the panels here. What I've done is created a circle in my original base flange, and then in my edge flange sketch I've converted the end of these, of this profile, and put it up here. So now, I'm going to go back to that base flange and I'm going to create a new circle that's a lot bigger and I'm going to get rid of this circle. I'm going to delete it outright. Let's go ahead and do that. Now I've got my cut on my bottom, but it hasn't translated up to the top. And if I go into my top edge flange, I now have a broken relationship, so let's undo that. And instead, what I'm going to do is make this construction, and I'm going to use the Replace feature. So I'm just going to search right here 'cause it's easier, and hit Replace Entity. And what this…
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Sketch Fillet and Sketch Chamfer4m 18s
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Offset and Convert Entities3m 45s
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Intersection Curve2m 5s
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Face2m 35s
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Segment2m 19s
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Trim and Extend Entities3m 19s
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Split Entities1m 24s
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Construction geometry2m 11s
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Make Path2m 22s
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Mirror and Dynamic Mirror3m 3s
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Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale, and Copy5m 1s
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Replace Entity2m
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Patterns5m 8s
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