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Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks® 2016
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Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks® 2016

by James D. Bethune
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
21h 26m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 2. Sketch Entities and Tools

Chapter Objectives

Learn how to create 2D sketches

Learn how to use most of the sketch tools

Learn how to create more complex shapes by combining individual sketch tools

2-1 Introduction

Chapter 2 explains and demonstrates the tools on the Sketch panel. Figure 2-1 shows the Sketch panel. Most of the sketch tools are initially explained and demonstrated individually. They are then combined in Sample Problems to show how they can be used together to create more complicated sketches.

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Figure 2-1

Most of the sections include only one tool so they can be referenced at a later time if a refresher is needed. ...

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