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Measuring - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Measuring

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be learning about the Measure command. Now the Measure command is used pretty much all the time while you're developing and designing a part, especially if you're not sure exactly how big a feature is and that really allows you to kind of measure or interrogate your existing model to make sure you're designing correctly for it. So let me show you how to use that tool. It is available under the Evaluate toolbar or you can also get to it several different ways for some shortcuts, but right now, let's just go ahead and use the Evaluate toolbar. Come over here to Measure. And I'm going to pull that right over here so I can see it a little clearer and let's go ahead and just choose like the top surface there, spin my model around here, choose like the bottom surface there. And you can see it gives me a dimension of 200 millimeters. So that's a Measure command that's really basic to use.…

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