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Creating sketches

Creating sketches - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating sketches

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- [Instructor] Creating sketches is one of the fundamental tools inside SolidWorks. In this movie we're going to be covering some of the basics. First thing I want to do is go ahead and create a brand new part. Click on OK. And to get started in a sketch, I have a couple different options here. I can choose one of these planes over here on the left, I can come up here to the sketch bar and click on sketch. Whole bunch of different options. So in this case I'm going to choose something like a front plane. It doesn't really matter, you can choose pretty much any one of the planes, but I like to think about it like the top plane's kind of like the floor, the front plane and the right plane are kind of like walls, so depending on the part you're designing you might want to choose the plane that makes the most sense. If you're going to create a table top, I'd probably choose the top plane. If you're going to create a picture on the wall, I'd probably choose the right plane, or the front…

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