- [Instructor] One of the sketch tools
that's on by default is the sketch expert.
This gives you the ability to solve over-defined sketches
and come up with a solution suggested by SOLIDWORKS.
So, in this sketch that I've started,
I've got my two dimensions and everything is fully defined.
If I add another dimension, essentially over-defining
this sketch, and leave it in there,
it's going to prompt the sketch expert.
So right now, it's showing that the item is unsolvable
and that it has conflicts.
If I click down here where it says over defined,
it brings up in the property manager, the sketch expert.
By clicking on diagnose, we can find
what the solutions to that problem are.
You can also do manual repair and change it yourself,
but if we click diagnose, we can see
any one of these solutions would solve the fact
that we have too many things trying
to constrict our over-defined sketch.
So we can change that horizontal relationship,
we can change a vertical relation,
the horizontal relation over here,
we could take out this dimension,
we could take out the dimension we added
that over-defined it, or we could take out
that vertical relation.
I'm going to take out this second dimension.
Hit accept, now you can see that it can find
a valid solution, hit green, and we've got a good,
fully-defined sketch, as shown
by the fully-defined notation down
at the bottom of our screen.
So that's how we use the sketch expert in SOLIDWORKS.