From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
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Concept sketches - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
Concept sketches
- [Narrator] If you have a pen or touch device, like a Sentek tablet or maybe a laptop with a touch screen, you have the ability to use the sketch ink toolbar. Now up here, we have a whole bunch of different cool tools we can use, and I'm going to go ahead and just go ahead and turn on the pen tool, and I can continue on this reference sketch that I'm working on. So I'm going to make a couple extra lines over here, maybe define this a little bit further. And once I've got the shape kind of looking what I'd like to have, I can then save this out as a reference sketch. So if I just go over here, exit out of that sketch, right here you can see I have this reference sketch. I can click on that sketch and I can show it and I can hide it, so if I want to hide it, I can bring it back and show something, and then of course I can just go right on top of that, like the front plane, and I can start creating real solid work entities. Now obviously this is a pretty rough sketch, but you might want…
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