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Sketching: Disable auto relations

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Sketching: Disable auto relations

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- [Instructor] When you're working with sketches, a lot of times when creating a sketch entity like a line, if I click over here, notice I get all these little automatic relationships. If I go over a point, it automatically is going to add in the coincident as well as the horizontal. If I go over any of these other components here, you can see it's going to automatically create these relationships for us. It's creating these little helper lines as well. If you don't want to see those, or you don't want that to happen, hold down control. If I hold down control, which I am now on my keyboard, nothing happens. I can go over any of these entities and you can see there's no lines actually being created here. No helper lines, no automatic relationships. If I let go of that control, now automatically those are going to come right back. And if I choose something like this, it's automatically is going to snap into there. And I've created that line, and I've created those relationships…

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