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Creating blocks

Creating blocks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating blocks

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- [Instructor] For this video, we're going to be learning about creating blocks and then using those blocks in designing your parts. So the first thing to do to create a block is you need to have the blocks toolbar turned on. Notice I have it right over here on my screen. If you don't have that turned on right now, I'll close it right now and I'll bring it back. So click on any one of these tabs or anywhere in the gray area up here, right click, coming down here to Toolbars, and make sure you turn on Blocks. It should show up somewhere on your screen. Sometimes it's hiding like way up here, maybe over here or maybe way over here. It's dockable, right? So you can dock it to the side of your screen if you'd like to. I'm going to leave it right there in the front, floating on top. For right now, I want to take all this sketch entities, all these sketch entities down here, and I want to turn them into a block that I could then use somewhere else, right? Right now I can type in and change…

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