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Sketch tab, part 2

Sketch tab, part 2 - SOLIDWORKS xDesign Tutorial

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Sketch tab, part 2

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- [Instructor] Once we have some geometry created inside of our sketch, we might want to manipulate it using the other tools available to us. So I mentioned that we have the dimension tool here, so if I draw a few lines over here on a separate part of the screen... Hitting Escape. I'm going to go on and toggle the dimension tool. This is basically a smart dimension tool, so you can single-click on an item and depending on where you position it, it's going to give you the dimension you want, so straight on, in a vertical dimension and a horizontal dimension, or if you select another item, at an angle, and the specific angle depending on which quadrant around the item that you place the dimension on. Once you do single-click and create a dimension, you're going to want to go ahead and put in a value, so I'm going to put 75 for that, and now we have the dimension created, we can reposition it by single-clicking on it and dragging it and moving around. We can also double-click on it and…

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