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Understanding relationships

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Understanding relationships

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- [Instructor] Sketch relationships. What are we talking about here? Well, a sketch relationship is some type of information that relates one line to another line. So let's jump into it. Right over here, you can see I've got a drawing already, not a drawing, but I have a part opened up and we want to start a drawing here. And I'm going to go ahead and choose the front plane, start a sketch, and now we're in the sketch environment. Now you see there's a whole bunch of tools up here at the top of the screen, but you really only need two of these, right? The first one is the line, and the next one is going to be the circle. Everything else up there is pretty much a combination of those two tools. So, of course, like rectangle is just four lines. Now with the exception of the spline, all the other ones are basically some combination. So, we want to focus on the line and circle tools. But to get started, let's go ahead and start with the line tool. All right, so I'm going to start with the…

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