- [Narrator] Creating a datum feature inside
of solid works is pretty easy.
And when you're doing geometric tolerancing
and dimensioning, you'll want to take advantage of this.
If we go to the annotation tab in the top
of our command manager,
we'll find in the center, datum feature.
If we click on this, it brings up our property manager.
Now, if you've created multiple datums
or you're trying to reestablish a datum
that you've already created before,
you can edit the label right here.
We also have several options for the leaders,
but I'm just going to simply go out onto the screen,
select the surface right here,
click on it once and now I can flip up or down
by dragging the mouse.
Select again, to place my datum.
Now you'll notice that the datum feature stays open
similar to a lot of the other annotation features
that we use inside of solid works.
If, for example, you wanted to attach a datum feature
to a geometric tolerance,
you can simply snap to the top of that,
click and drag to place one of those as well.
When you're done, you can either hit the green check mark
or hit escape to back out.
Pretty easy to do.
But again, if you click on it,
you can change the label as well, pretty easily.