- [Instructor] If you have a pen or touch input device
like a Wacom tablet or a Cintiq screen,
something like that,
you have the option of using sketch ink.
And if you don't have the sketch ink toolbar turned on,
which I have right up here, you could right click
and come over here to tabs
and come down here to sketch ink
and then just go ahead and turn that on.
As soon as you have that toolbar turned on
let's go ahead and start a sketch.
So I'm going to go ahead and choose the front plane,
and come up here and click on sketch,
and now we have a whole bunch of tools available to us.
We have the color, so we can switch
to whatever color I'd like.
I can adjust the size of the line I'm going to be drawing.
I can jump into the draw toolbar,
I have the erase toolbar,
I have the select, I have power modify
so if you have like a rectangle,
you can draw like a line across the corner of it
and do automatic chamfers or radiuses, things like that.
The ruler tool is kind of cool.
You've got a protractor
so you can draw like straight lines
and things like that.
And then you have this ink with touch,
so if you have a touch screen, you can then turn that on.
You can use your finger to draw things
which is pretty cool.
You can have SolidWorks
automatically recognize shapes for you.
So if you draw something that looks like a rectangle,
SolidWorks will recognize it and say,
hey are you trying to run a rectangle?
And it'll create one on the screen for you.
We can also have SolidWorks create automatic sketch entities
for us with this next one here.
So auto sketch entities
it will recognize what you're trying to draw
and it'll just go ahead and create a sketch entity
from that, same thing with the auto spline.
The last two here are the instant 2D tool
which is available in SolidWorks.
A lot of different places.
You can just easily drag handles and move things around.
And then I have the shaded sketch contours that just
allows you to see what you're actually drawing.
So let's go ahead and start
with the very first one, which is just draw.
I'm going to switch over here to my tablet
and you can see how you just go ahead
and just draw something on the screen, like a rectangle.
Okay, and there it is, so pretty cool.
And SolidWorks just kind of recognizes that
and now it's an entity.
And then you can do, you know whatever you want,
like splines, you can draw something out,
you can draw, you know, pretty much any shape.
This is just kind of a sketch pad.
You know, you can just kind of do something
on here as as whatever you want.
Now, if you were to switch over here to like
auto shape, for instance, if I draw then a rectangle
like this, Solidwork says hey, you're trying to a rectangle
and it automatically corrects it
to being a perfect rectangle, which is pretty cool,
same thing with like a circle.
So here's my circle, it just turns it into a circle.
Okay, now if you switch over here to auto sketch entities,
that one's a little different.
Now I can draw rectangle over here
and SolidWorks will actually turn that into regular
SolidWorks sketches, so pretty cool what you can do there.
So it allows you not only to kind of freeform design things
but you can also actually create real Solidworks
sketch geometry, so real powerful there.
This power modify tool is pretty cool.
If you come over here, something like this,
you can actually just draw a line through it
and it will go ahead and create like a chamfer
like you see there, just automatically add that.
You can also add radiuses and things like that too.
So a whole bunch of things you can play with here,
you can go over to the eraser.
If you don't like something, you can just get rid of it
on your screen, just using your tablet.
Or if you switch over to pen ink
with touch, you can just use your finger
and draw things and modify.
So anyways, there's a whole bunch
of different tools you can play with here
in the sketch ink toolbar.
It's great for kind of creating some freeform sketches
and then, you know, maybe overlaying that
with some real geometry on another sketch.
Or just kind of a quick way to kind of like,
you know just by free hand things, you can use those convert
or auto sketch entities
and just kind of design things out really quickly
and let SolidWorks do most of the work behind
you can just use your pen to start creating those shapes.
So anyways, check it out when you get a chance.