Sometimes, the actual arc length is more important to specify then other dimensions. In Drawings and Sketches, you can easily specify the actual arc length.
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Often times in Sketches and Drawings, it is more important to specify the distance to the outside of an arc or circle then the center.
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I know last week I mentioned that we were finished with sketch tools, for the time being, but I figured one more couldn’t hurt. I was working on a model for work earlier this week that I had created a few features using Derived Sketches and I thought it would be a great topic to [...]

♪Monday, Monday, so good to me ♪♫ … because it is the beginning of another fine SolidWorks week. Over the past two weeks, we have been covering some cool Sketch tools available in SolidWorks 2008. I know some of you might be wondering why I am still in 2008. Well to be honest, I would [...]

♫ It’s just another manic Monday. I wish it were Sunday ’cause that’s my funday ♫♪. Since it has to be Monday, let’s make the best of it with another look at some more sketch tools. Last week, we started looking at some sketch tools in the world famous article,The Right Sketch Tool for the [...]

Sketches are such an  important aspect of SolidWorks. Virtually everything that is modeled in SolidWorks is controlled by a sketch. Yet, It still amazes me how even though everybody creates sketches daily, a lot of users aren’t aware of all the cool sketch tools available. Over the next couple of weeks we will look at [...]

I can’t recall how many times I have seen a user do the following when creating a simple straight slot. First, the user creates two equally sized circles and makes the origins horizontal to each other. He then creates two horizontal lines, one above the circles and the other below the circles. A tangent relationship [...]

When you are working on designs, there are times when it is necessary to link dimensions. Linking dimensions associates a word or word phrase to a number value that other dimensions in a model can then reference. This is an especially handy tool when you are dealing with complex models that have multiple features that [...]

One of my favorite new features in SolidWorks 2008 is the addition of Shortcut Bars. Shortcut bars are customizable floating bars that pop up in the graphic area near your mouse pointer. By default each environment has its own shortcut bar that you can then customize just like another toolbar. With Shortcut Bars in addition [...]