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Dimensioning holes and curved features

Dimensioning holes and curved features - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Dimensioning holes and curved features

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- [Gabriel] Whenever we're working with holes and dimensioning them on a drawing, SolidWorks gives us a couple of useful tools. The first one is going to be called the Hole Callout. So go ahead, under annotation, come up here to Hole Callout, click on that one there, and now I'm going to go ahead and place a dimension on this lower hole here. So, as soon as I place that dimension, notice it gives me the thru hole size, it gives me size of the counter bore or counter sink, what we have in there, and so on. So you get a whole bunch of information with that callout, but sometimes, it's not enough. Sometimes you want to actually see into that hole and see what's going on. And in fact, a good way to do that is to switch over to a wireframe. So I'm going to go ahead and use this view here, then come up here and switch over to wireframe. And as soon as I switch to the wireframe, I actually notice there's actually a hole coming through all these other holes and connecting them together. And…

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