Chapter 3: Working with Sketches
Straight Slot and Curved Slot draw slots of a given width and length with full rounds on the ends.
All the slot sketch entities can be seen in the PropertyManager shown in Figure 3.27. If you need
to draw a composite slot or a slot with multiple entities, you will need to use the bi-directional
sketch offset with capped ends mentioned earlier.
FIGURE 3.27PropertyManager for the slot sketch entities
The Dimensions/Relations toolbar
The Dimensions/Relations toolbar has a few tools that you have already seen, but as the name sug-
gests, it also contains tools that will either help you to create or investigate dimensions and sketch
relations. Figure 3.28 shows the default toolbar, but in the following pages, you look at all the
available tools you can see at Tools ➪ Customize ➪ Commands ➪ Dimensions/Relations.FIGURE 3.28The Dimensions/Relations toolbar
l^ Smart Dimension. Lets you dimension the sketch entity as you sketch.
l Horizontal Dimension. Applies a dimension to a sketch entity that drives the horizontal
distance between the endpoints.