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Using the Rectangle tool

Using the Rectangle tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Rectangle tool

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- [Instructor] The rectangle tool is one of the most common of the sketch entities. And SolidWorks gives us several different options for creating rectangles. So you can see here, I've already got a sketch fired up inside of SolidWorks, and right up here is the rectangle tool. Now notice if you click on the dropdown, you've got the corner rectangle, the center rectangle, the three point corner rectangle, the three point center rectangle, and, of course, our friend the parallelogram. So the very first one is the corner rectangle. Click where you want to start and click where you want to end. Pretty straightforward and simple. And notice the way that SolidWorks creates this for us. It gives us a horizontal-horizontal, vertical-vertical relationship on those lines. And that's how you define this shape. Now if you didn't want one of those, click on it, hit Delete, and now you can grab those endpoints and you can drag it around, so you can modify the rectangle as needed. The other…

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