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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[Mr.XYZ]

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

[nearth]

!! 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.

[abdulrahim]

@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

[arikariel]

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.

[mohammedumar]

Make a detail video on surface modelling

[alf]

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

[alexanderb]

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

[asif.a]

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?

[ObiWanPL]

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