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Beginner's Guide to SOLIDWORKS 2019- Level I

3.4. - It is a good practice to have single, non-intersecting profiles in the sketch,

and no more than 2 lines sharing an endpoint. While it is possible to use a sketch

with intersecting lines using a function called "Contours," it will be covered in the

Level II book, and for now we'll continue using single contour sketch.

1 In general, it is a good idea to work with single contour sketches and

advance to other techniques like Contours after getting a better

understanding of the use of open and closed contour sketches.

SOLIDWORKS automatically adds a shaded area when it finds a closed

contour; when we move the mouse pointer inside, the entire closed area is

highlighted.

To clean up the sketch, we will use the "Trim" command from the Sketch toolbar,

from the lower left corner in the Mouse Gestures or the menu "Tools, Sketch

Tools, Trim."

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Trims or extends a sketch entity to be

coincident to another, or deletes a

sketch entity.

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