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Choosing the correct projection angle

Choosing the correct projection angle - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Choosing the correct projection angle

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- [Instructor] When working with SolidWorks drawings, we need to make sure we're choosing the correct projection style. Now, what we're looking here at the screen is what's called a third angle projection. Now, if you're in the US, most of the time we do use a third angle projection style, but if you're pretty much anywhere else in the world, they use the first angle projection. So it's a very subtle difference between the two, but if you're looking at a drawing expecting it to be a certain way, it's very easy to get confused if you're looking at a first angle projection and you're expecting a third angle projection. Well, let me show you what a third angle projection is and then we'll compare that to a first angle projection, and you can see why it's such a common mistake. So the way I was taught this originally was if you had a big mixing bowl, and you put your part in the bottom of the mixing bowl. And you took that…

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