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Making an axis

Making an axis - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Making an axis

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- Anytime you're creating a revolved feature or some type of a circular pattern, we need to have an axis. Now generally there's not an axis available where you want it or if there is you can turn it on. So I want to show you right up here, there are actually these sneaky little axises that are right over here called View Temporary Axes. So notice we turn those on they actually show up that anywhere you see a circular face. So you can use those without creating more. But if you want to learn how to create more, let's go ahead and turn those off. Come up here to Reference Geometry. Come down here to Axis. Now there's a whole bunch of ways we can do this, right? So we got a one line edge or axis. That's pretty straight forward. Just choose like a line like this edge here. And it'll just put a axis right there on that edge. Pretty straight forward. Up here, one more time, let's go to this one. Let's say two planes. So we've…

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