Top SOLIDWORKS Sketching Tips

Learn our top 6 sketching tips for productivity! Discover a variety of useful SOLIDWORKS system options as well as underused sketch tools in this video presented by Alexander Smith.
0:18 Automatically rotate view to be normal to sketch
1:17 Input dimensions while sketching
2:18 Shaded sketch contours
3:06 Trim to Construction
3:30 Dynamic Mirror Entities
3:50 Sketch Colors
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[@4n2earth22]

!! Excellent. !! Thank you for posting. Informative, concise, clear, and comprehensive. Well done!

[@gurmeetsinghkalsi]

Really helpful video. Keep updating more hidden features and techniques. I am a new user of Solidworks and just started learning it. These videos will be a great help of people like me.

[@ryanward8117]

exacly what I need to hear!

[@Emanemoston]

Thank you for the video.

[@Mr.XYZ6775]

I like the changing of sketch colors. Sometimes I have to turn on 2 or 3 switches to build another.👍📝

[@MTN_008]

Amazing! Thanks 🤗

[@alexanderb913]

Wow, that's great. Plz keep it doing.

[@mrhasans]

Great ! Thanks!

[@arikariel80]

Vary good tips, thanks. as for your first tip, i think i won't use it as sometimes i must see more then one sketch at a time. like when using pirce command. but i think for students is a very good tip.
.Mybe Solidworks will saparate New and Edit so it can be more useable.

[@ALFURQONTAWABI]

Thank u sir ,very helpful

[@drifteverywhere]

excellent tips

[@sharifjamadar1477]

Nice tips,👍

[@abdulrahim2237]

@Hawk Ridge Systems I have SW2018 premium edition, but not showing "Keep trimmed entities as construction geometry" and below option, as you have shown in tip # 4. Need help. Thanks

[@hawkridgesystems]

The option for keeping trimmed entities as construction geometry was added in 2019 help.solidworks.com/2019/English/WhatsNew/c_construction_geometry_trim_entities.htm
On older versions you can use "Split entities" to split up sketch segments and convert them into construction geometry. help.solidworks.com/2019/english/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_split_entities.htm

[@science_engineering]

interesting :) thank u!

[@tanzanos]

Thank you

[@nascar954]

Wow. Nice

[@user-us4sh5lk6t]

Thanks

[@Skylos100500]

Nice tips

[@mathivanan3515]

Very useful

[@asif.a15]

I've tried tip #2
Whenever I add values of dimension while sketching, entities still shows under defined even after fully defining the position of the entity.
I use solidworks 19
Any solution?

[@mohammedumar6779]

Make a detail video on surface modelling

[@alf3071]

is it posible to reset the first dimension of a sketch? when u put the first dimension the program scales everything

[@ObiWanPL]

Tip nr2 i searching i move from NX and there i used this whole time special for circle

[@dragan796]

this should be by default.

[@MTN_008]

Thanks