There is a quick way to Pan your parts and assemblies by pressing ctrl keyboard and click middle scroll button… and drag it… Give it a try…

Normal To is my favorite tools while modeling the part, it’s use for align your sketch perpendicular to you..

This is your standard view control toolbar,

to add Normal To shortcut here, right click on it, there is unchecked option for Normal To.

Check the box for Normal To.

Hey, your new view control toolbar now have Normal To shortcut..

In assembly you can add parts manually by insert component, for add same part over and over you can pin the menu and continue to add parts. There’s quick way to add same part over and over in assembly just by click part and press Ctrl keyboard and drag to side. Try it!

Did notice a view orientation icon at lower left?

Did you know it can function as part viewer and can be clicked on it.

Lets try click on Y axis arrow and its arrow turn to gold color.


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Did you know full radius fillet can be applied to taper faces and curve faces? Above picture is two example how I utilize this features.

To add this full radius fillet, click on Fillet on its options select full radius fillet;


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Broken sweep pipes?

May 7, 2012

“Rafi Style wrote at 6:10pm from facebook

Hey …i am having problem with sweep boss/base function. I need to make a pipe for which I have made the required 2d geometry with fillets of 5mm in corners..When tried to sweep it says two reason that i am unable to understand

a)the path passing too closely to itself

b)the way the section twists as it moves along the path

Plz help me in this…. :(

From my understanding his problem is somethings like this…

Let’s analyze why?
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