Learn about the essential tools and functions for sketching in SOLIDWORKS. Discover how to leverage key sketch settings, use sketch and spline tools, approach 3D sketching, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Lines, rectangles, and the Parallelogram
- Slots
- Polygons
- Circles
- Arcs
- Ellipse, Parabola, and Conic
- Splines
- Text
- Sketch Fillet and Sketch Chamfer
- Offset and Convert Entities
- Intersection Curve
- Face
- Segment
- Trim and Extend Entities
- Split Entities
- Construction geometry
- Make Path
- Mirror and Dynamic Mirror
- Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale, and Copy
- Replace Entity
- Patterns
- Automatic Relations
- Automatic Solve
- Enable Snapping
- Shaded Sketch Contours
- Detach Segment on Drag
- Override Dims on Drag/Move
- Controls
- Inserting features
- Simplify
- Converting splines
- Fit Spline
- Show and hide options
- Smart Dimension
- Horizontal, Vertical, and Ordinate Dimension
- Path Length Dimension
- Measure tool
- 3D sketching
- 3D sketching on plane
- Editing in 3D
- Next steps
Taught by
David Antanavige