Chapter 6
Getting More from Your Sketches

Previous chapters described the basic tools for sketching. This chapter takes you to the next level and teaches you about more advanced sketch tools, as well as how to edit and manipulate sketches, and how to work with sketch text, sketch pictures, and sketch colors. By the end of this chapter (with a little practice to reinforce the tools and techniques), you should feel like you have mastered the topic of SolidWorks sketching and can handle almost any problem that is thrown at you.

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IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• Edit sketch relations
• Copy and move sketch entities
• Use sketch pictures
• Use sketch text
• Use colors and line styles with sketches
• Use other sketch tools
• Sketch 3D

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Editing Sketch Relations

Delete is not an editing option. In time, you'll find that this is good advice, even if you don't agree with it now. There are times to delete instead of editing, but you should delete only when it is necessary. Especially while learning...