The position of SOLIDWORKS sketches

Sketches are typically viewed as fast drafts of a certain shape. For example, the following diagrams show a hand-drawn sketch of a square and a sketch of a cube, respectively. The main point of these is to provide a rough idea of an object. In the following sketch, we are communicating the idea of a square, without specifying how big that object is:

Similarly, the following sketch communicates the idea of a cube, without specifying how big the cube is:

SOLIDWORKS sketches are a bit different. In SOLIDWORKS, ...

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