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Working with planes

Working with planes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with planes

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- At this point in the course you probably already know to start a sketch, We need a face or a plane to start drawing on. Now, what happens if we are trynna create a hole or something like that at an angle, and there's not a face or a plane that's available for us to draw on. That's when we have to go back into solid works and create our own plane. So, if I head over here to features, and I come up here to reference geometry and directly below that is this thing called plane. Alright, now notice we've got first reference, second reference and third reference. Now, depending on how powerful the object you choose, or the face you choose, or the plane you choose is the less that you actually need. So if you're choosing a face itself, or a plane, you only need one reference, right? So let me give you an example. Right over here I'm going to go ahead and choose something like this plane right here. So the top plane. Let us…

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