- [Instructor] For this video we're going to
take a look at the sketching slot features.
So if we go up here to our command ribbon,
we can see that we have the slot features.
We have Straight Slot, Centerpoint Straight Slot,
3 Point Arc Slot, and Centerpoint Arc Slot.
Now none of these is necessarily the correct
way to use the slot feature in sketching.
It's really going to depend on what you're using to reference
the geometry and how you want to be able
to change it in the future.
So let's go ahead and hit Sketch.
We're going to start a new sketch
on the front plane here
and do some of these features.
I'm going to start with the Straight Slot
and make a couple of them.
So, first I'm going to make a vertical one.
I pick my starting point,
which is going to be the center point
of one of the arcs, extend out with my construction line
that gives me the other center point when I click
of the center arc
and then I drag out to define the diameter of the arc.
So I click a third time and now I have defined the slot.
So again, I'm going to single click to define one extent,
click again to define the other extent
and then drag out to define the size of the slot.
Now you can see once you've got that made,
you can grab it by the midpoint
and kind of stretch it.
You can see these don't move around as easy
as you would expect like a rectangle,
so you kind of have to grab
whichever point you want.
Typically when you want to move a slot
it's easier to just move using the move entities tool.
When you click on the slot,
you'll notice that you have a bunch of options here
so you can add relations like you do with every
other thing.
You can also define the slot by length and width,
radius, and length of the center points.
You can also make it construction,
so if I click this on you can see
that they all went to construction lines,
now that's construction geometry,
and if we wanted to we can also define it down here,
so I can make this a two inch wide
by three inches long.
You can see I've got a three inch length for this line.
And if you measure from one point to the other,
I've got two inches.
You can also do things like fix the slot,
make it horizontal, make it vertical,
so fixing the slot, if I click on this,
will actually fix the entire thing.
I'm going to unfix that slot.
What I can also do is select a part of the slot
and fix it, and now you can see
that just that entity is fixed.
So a couple different options with slots,
but that's creating just a general straight slot.
We also have a Centerpoint Straight Slot
which instead of selecting the two endpoints
we select the center point and then the endpoint.
So I'm going to select the center point,
drag out to make my endpoint.
You can see it's making the line for the center of the slot.
I'm going to click and then I'm going to drag out
to make the slot.
Again, start with the center point by clicking,
drag out to make the endpoint
and then drag again, the third time
to make the size of the slot.
Works very similarly to the first straight slot.
You're just defining a center point
instead of the endpoints.
Now for the third option, the 3 Point Arc Slot,
this if for making arc slots.
So I'm going to go ahead and select that.
You can see that around my icon it shows you
a little arc with the three little points
that you're going to define,
so I'm going to define my left point,
slide over, define my right point
and then go up and define the center point of the slot.
Now I drag out to make the thickness.
So instead of having three selections like before,
we actually have four selections
that we have to make.
So I selected my beginning point,
my endpoint, and then the middle of the arc
which basically sets it's diameter.
And then I extend it out to give it a thickness.
So in more time, I'm going to select my first point,
my second point, and then you can drag it
one way or the other to give it a radius
and then a thickness.
And you can make it really thin if you want
or really thick, it doesn't matter.
Alright, so the last one that we're going to use
is the Centerpoint Arc Slot.
So this works a little differently.
Instead of finding the three points
that make the definition of the slot,
we select the two endpoints and a center point.
So, first I select my center point.
Drag it out and you can see it's making the radius
of the circle that I'll be working with.
Select my starting point for the arc,
my finishing point,
and then I drag out to make the slot.
So again, I selected my center point first,
then the two endpoints,
and then I dragged it out to give it some thickness.
So again, center point, I'm going to drag that out.
I'm going to define my arc
and then I'm going to drag out
to give is some value for thickness.
And again, as before,
you can define some of those parameters here.
They're all available in the Property tab.