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Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks 2019
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Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks 2019

by James D. Bethune
June 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
768 pages
20h 17m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 7 Dimensioning

Chapter Objectives

7-1 Introduction

Dimensions are added to SolidWorks on Drawing documents. Dimensions will appear in Part documents, but these are construction dimensions. These sketch dimensions are used to create a part and are used when a sketch is edited. They may be modified as the part is being created using the Smart Dimension tool. They will not appear on the finished model or in assembly drawings.

Figure 7-1 shows a dimensioned shape. The drawing on the left in Figure 7-1 shows the sketching dimensions that were created as the part was being ...

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ISBN: 9780135401620