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Drawing slots

Drawing slots - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Drawing slots

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- [Instructor] There are multiple different ways to create slots, and in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that. Let's head over here and create a sketch. I'm going to go ahead and choose the front plane, and jump up here and take a look at the slot tool. So notice we have a straight slot, we have a center point straight slot, the three point arc slot, and the center point arc slot. So a bunch of different options here. I'm going to go ahead and choose that very first one here. And notice right over here, you can switch between the different types very quickly. So let's go ahead and click and drag out a line, and notice that's just a regular center line, right? And you're getting the same heads up display. It's saying it's 2 1/2 inches long, it's at 180 degrees, and if you were to click right now, it would add a horizontal relationship. That's where you see that little yellow box. Now of course, if you move that around, that yellow box goes away. And then if you come…

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