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The Fastest Way To Fully Define a Sketch in SOLIDWORKS | Tech Tip Tuesday

By SOLIDWORKS June 3, 2025
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The Fastest Way To Fully Define a Sketch in SOLIDWORKS | Tech Tip Tuesday

Discover how to use the Fully Define Sketch command to add relations and dimensions to a sketch automatically in this Tech Tip Tuesday blog.

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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 2: Instant2D & Instant3D

By Lennart Tinndahl August 6, 2020
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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 2: Instant2D & Instant3D

In “Dabbling in Dimensions – Part 1” I briefly covered the “Modify” dimension box, or “the classic look” as i called it. In this blog post I will cover the Instant version of the dimensions. Within SOLIDWORKS you have 2

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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 1

By Lennart Tinndahl July 2, 2020
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Dabbling in Dimensions- Part 1

When working in SOLIDWORKS you have a few options when working with the dimension box. You have the classic dimension box and you have the Instant2D (introduced in 2016) and the Instant 3D. Which one you wish to use is

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Why are my symbols missing?

By CADimensions July 17, 2018
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Why are my symbols missing?

<MOD-DIAM>?!? What is this? Where is my diameter symbol? Sometimes when updating SOLIDWORKS, the file locations can get mixed up. This is usually due to running multiple versions on the same computer.  SOLIDWORKS will take the file locations for the

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15 Quick Steps to Setup a Design Library Feature

By Alignex, Inc. April 20, 2017
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15 Quick Steps to Setup a Design Library Feature

Are you finding yourself generating the same feature every time you create a new part? Would you like an easy way to stamp your company logo into your products? Then the SOLIDWORKS Library Feature is meant for you! Library features allow

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How to Hide/Show Dimensions in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing

By Javelin Technologies April 14, 2017
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How to Hide/Show Dimensions in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing

In some cases instead of deleting a dimension, you might decide to hide SOLIDWORKS Drawing Dimensions. Now the question is how to make a hidden dimension visible again? This article demonstrates how to hide and then show dimensions in the drawing

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Five Great Smart Dimension Tips for Sketch and Drawings

By CAD2M March 27, 2017
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Five Great Smart Dimension Tips for Sketch and Drawings

While every SOLIDWORKS user knows how to dimension lines, arcs or circles, I noticed that some engineers do not know the full power of Smart Dimension. So, in this tech blog I want to show you five handy tricks to

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SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Move and Copy Dimensions Between Drawing Views

By SOLIDWORKS March 9, 2017
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SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Move and Copy Dimensions Between Drawing Views

Creating dimensions in drawing views can often be a time consuming process. This is especially true when there’s a lot of views included in the drawing. To make it easier to add dimensions to views, SOLIDWORKS can move or copy

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Using the Note Feature to Combine Drawing Dimensions

By Prism Engineering, Inc. April 17, 2015
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Using the Note Feature to Combine Drawing Dimensions

Let’s examine the process of combining dimensions into notes using the SOLIDWORKS Note feature: When working in a SOLIDWORKS and using the command INSERT > ANNOTATIONS > NOTE, you have the ability to add 1 or more dimensions to this note

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