Essentials Course.book

Lesson 2
Introduction to Sketching
SolidWorks 2006 Training Manual
Procedure
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State of the sketch
Each sketch has a status that determines whether it is ready to be used
or not. The state can be fully-, under- or over defined.
Sketch tools
Tools can be used to modify the sketch geometry that has been created.
This often involves the trimming or extension of the entities.
Extruding the sketch
Extruding uses the 2D sketch to create a 3D solid feature.
The process in this lesson includes sketching and extrusions. To begin
with, a new part file is created.
1 New part.
Click New , or click File, New on the Standard toolbar. Click the
Part_IN template from the Training Templates tab on the New
SolidWorks Document dialog box, and click OK.
Pre-Release
Do not copy or distribute
The part is created with the settings of the template. One key setting is
the part’s units. As the name implies, this part template uses inches as
the units. You can create and save any number of different templates,
all with different settings.
22 Stages in the Process