- [Instructor] Blocks are a great tool to use in SolidWorks.
Many of us are familiar with blocks
because we use them in other softwares
like AutoCAD or other 2D suites back in the past,
but SolidWorks also has full block capability.
Inside of sketches, you can have multiple blocks
that you can grab, manipulate, add relations to.
If you go the extra mile, you can set up a block library
so you can quickly grab and drag and drop blocks
into your designs, and make them even better, even quicker.
So for example, this is a sheet metal part
that I'm working on.
I've got a cutout for a buzzer in here.
I can just drag and drop as many of that cutout as I want,
and dimension it accordingly,
to put it in the right position.
And it's very quick and easy,
and I know I've got accurate cutouts.
I don't have to go in here
and we do this geometry every single time.
So that's just one example of how you can leverage blocks.
You can also use them in drawings,
and in other areas in SolidWorks.
We're going to step through making and editing blocks,
inserting blocks, saving blocks, and how to explode a block.