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Working with reusable sketches and blocks

Working with reusable sketches and blocks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with reusable sketches and blocks

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- [Instructor] Blocks are independent non-solving sketches that can be used in a variety of ways inside of SolidWorks. The most common would be to copy a sketch and then use that sketch somewhere else in your design. By creating a block, all of the entities in the block become frozen and can be manipulated as a whole. We can save blocks for later use as well as open blocks that were created in the SolidWorks format as well as formats like AutoCAD, DWG, and DXF. To insert a block into your design, first we want to turn on the blocks toolbar. So if you go anywhere up here in the gray area on the top of your screen, right click and let's go down here and turn on the Blocks toolbar. Click on that, and notice the toolbar shows up over here on the left. I can then grab that toolbar and place it pretty much anywhere you want. I'm going to go ahead and anchor it right over here to my right-hand side pane. And now what I want to do is start a sketch. So click on this top surface here. Click on…

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