Chapter 3: Working with Sketches
- Open a new part with inches as the units.
- Draw a sketch on the Front plane as shown in Figure 3.44, with four lines con-
nected to the Origin. Exit the sketch and rename it Layout Sketch, either by clicking
twice on the name of the feature in the FeatureManager or by selecting it and pressing F2.
FIGURE 3.44
The layout sketch
- Open a second sketch on the Front plane, and draw a circle centered on the Origin
with a 6-inch diameter.
- Inside the circle, draw a Centerpoint rectangle centered on the Origin.
- Select two adjacent sides of the rectangle and make an Equal sketch relation
between them. (This makes the rectangle into a square.)
- Click the Smart Dimension tool, and apply a 1.000-inch dimension to one side of
the square. Turn off the Smart Dimension tool by clicking it again on the toolbar or
pressing Esc.
- If the Blocks toolbar is not active, activate it and then select Make Block. You can
also access this command through Tools ➪ Block ➪ Make.
- Window select the circle and the square by clicking and dragging a box that
includes all the items in the sketch. The PropertyManager to the left displays a circle
and five lines that are to be made into a block.
- Expand the Insertion Point panel in the PropertyManager. This causes a blue manipu-
lator Origin to appear in the graphics window. Click this Origin and drag it onto the cen-
ter of the circle. Then click the green check mark icon to exit the Make Block dialog box.
This is shown in Figure 3.45.
