From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Switching sketch planes

Switching sketch planes

- [Voiceover] In this video, I'm gonna be showing you how to move a feature from one side of a part to the other. Now you can see I have this red cut extrude here in the center of the part, and I wanna move that to the other side of the part. So you can see over here I've got a green face, and I wanna move it to there. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go over and click on Cut Extrude number one, and directly below that is Sketch2, click on that and choose Edit Sketch Plane. Now the other way we could have done this is just delete the feature altogether, create a new sketch on the other side of the part, but why do all that work? All I need to do is choose a different face, this one over here, which is green, click on Okay, and now that feature has been moved to this side of the part. The only problem is it's going in the wrong direction. Notice over here we have an error, it shows up as red, so click on that and click on Edit Feature. You can see I've got that cut extrude still going…

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