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Making your first CAD drawing

Making your first CAD drawing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Making your first CAD drawing

- [Instructor] The third step in the Quick Start Guide is creating a drawing from either a part or an assembly. You can see here I've got a part already opened up on the screen and I'd like to create a basic drawing for that. It's very similar to creating an assembly. If you just go over here under File, Make Drawing from Part, click on that, and as you can see here, we have the option of choosing a template that you'd like to use. Now we've got some predefined templates inside of SolidWorks, you can also add a path to your own company templates if you already have them predefined, or you can save your own templates and then add them to this list. But to get started, let's just go ahead and just go ahead and choose this C size drawing, click on OK, and SolidWorks is going to go ahead and open up that template and give you a few options as far as the different views you'd like to bring in to that drawing. So let's go ahead and just drag and drop. So drag in the front view, just drag it…

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