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Mastering SolidWorks
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Mastering SolidWorks

by Matt Lombard
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1248 pages
39h 29m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 3Working with Sketches and Reference Geometry

The first step to learning how to create models in SolidWorks is to learn how to sketch. If you are coming from another history-based modeling program, many of your skills are transferable to SolidWorks. If you have never used CAD before, think of the sketch-feature relationship as creating a simplified 2D drawing that represents a portion of the part that you can make with some sort of process such as extruding or revolving.

So far in this book, you have looked mainly at concepts, settings, and setup, which are necessary but mundane. In this chapter, you'll begin to learn how to control parametric relationships in sketches. Then in later chapters, you'll begin to build models—simple at ...

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