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Would you like to work faster and more efficiently with SOLIDWORKS? There is a ton of knowledge in the SOLIDWORKS community that you'll never learn from the documentation. Gabriel Corbett has spent years studying the program, attending conferences, teaching classes, and talking to fellow experts. In this weekly series, he shares his insights with you. These tips and tricks cover many different facets of the program, from renaming files, customizing properties, to sketching and constructing difficult geometry, replacing parts, and drawing links. Each weekly episode is just 2-10 minutes—ensuring maximum returns in a minimum amount of time. Tune in every Wednesday for new SOLIDWORKS tips. Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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- [Instructor] For this week's tip, we're going to be talking about virtual sharps. So in my first example here you can see I've got two straight lines segments, I have an eight inch long segment, and a 10 inch long segment, and I'm going to go ahead and add a fillet right over here. Click on the Fillet Tool, type in half of an inch, and go ahead and choose this point right there. Click on OK, and now I have that little fillet, and notice the dimensions here, continue on to where these two lines intersect, and what that is called is a virtual sharp position. Now if you already had those line segments and you added the radius first, SOLIDWORKS automatically knows that, more than likely, you'd prefer to add a dimension to the virtual sharp, and it keeps it that way, so it's pretty handy. Now If I go over here to my next example, and I add a dimension, and I click on this line right here, it gives me only that length. If I go ahead and I click on this point here, out to this radius here,…
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SOLIDWORKS: Creating Virtual Sharps. A common task for us is dimensioning to a point that exists where two edges, lines, arcs, and/or curves would intersect if those entities were extended. This is called a “virtual sharp” in SOLIDWORKS and is a useful reference in drawings and sketches. Some people may call it a Theoretical Sharp.