How To Dimension In Solidworks Drawing

Did y'all know SOLIDWORKS can add together dimensions to your sketch automatically? Adding dimensions manually tin can be a tedious task if you have to practise it many times a twenty-four hour period. SOLIDWORKS Automatic Sketch Dimensions makes this process much faster. Instead of finishing drawing a sketch entity, then selecting the Smart Dimension command, and then adding dimensions one by ane; the dimensions are added automatically while y'all sketch. AutoCAD users will appreciate this adequacy. Because information technology reminds them of a similar process in AutoCAD.

How to Actuate SOLIDWORKS Automatic Sketch Dimensions

Here is how to actuate the automatic dimension function while sketching:

Menu Tools > Options > System Options > Sketch
Check off "Enable on screen numeric input on entity creation"
As well check off "Create dimensions only when value is entered"
Start drawing a sketch; Employ click-movement-click approach to draw the sketch entity
Enter the required dimension in the highlighted box, then press Enter
If more than dimension is needed (such every bit drawing a rectangle) enter dimension and press Enter until the sketch is done
The fully divers sketch is as regular, meaning the dimension values could be modified afterwards on by double-clicking on them.

SOLIDWORKS Automatic Sketch Dimensions

Sketch a Line

As common method of drawing line, orient the line such that the horizontal or vertical relation is added, and then earlier clicking on the second finish point of the line, enter a number representing the dimension of that line and printing Enter on the keyboard. That will finish off the fully defined line and SolidWorks would exist gear up to draw next line. The orientation of the line is set past mouse and the length of it is defined by inbound a number and pressing Enter.

Draw a line using automated dimensioning while sketching.

Sketch a Rectangle

The following image shows drawing a Corner Rectangle using the on screen numeric input.

Select the Corner Rectangle command,
Click on the Origin, or the first point
Enter a value for the vertical dimension and press Enter on the keyboard
Now the horizontal dimension is highlighted, punch in a value and printing Enter
The closed contour is fully defined and completed.

Draw a rectangle using automated dimensions while sketching.

Sketch Circles

If you finish drawing a sketch without inserting dimension values, it will exist a underdefined profile which could be dimensioned later using Smart Dimension. In the following as another example, a circle is fatigued using the on screen dimensioning and then the embedded circle is finished without entering a value for radius. For that, you lot just need to skip the step of entering dimension values. The same process as you lot would regularly draw a circle.