- [Instructor] When you're trying to split lines,
arcs or splines into equal segments inside of your sketch,
sometimes it's really smart to use the segment tool.
Now I don't have it
automatically installed on my ribbon, so I'm going to go up
here to the command manager and just enter segment and hit
return, and you can see here that it's the first one
to come up.
By selecting the show command location, it's going to go to the
location where segment is inside of our sketch tools
and show us where it is.
So you can see here
I'm in sketch tools, and it's in the second section
of tools in segment.
So you go ahead and click on that and it just
gives you one option, it just asks what entity do you want to
segment and how many segments do you want to have.
so I'm going to select this line first,
I want five segments, or five
points rather, so one, two, three, four, five points
making one, two, three, four, five, six segments.
I can make sketch segments
or I can make sketch points, so I can
switch it back and forth, here I've got one, two, three,
four, five sketch segments.
Go ahead and click okay.
And now this line is split into five individual lines with
their relations installed.
Now that's pretty easy,
splitting a line, I'm also going to do it for this spline
that I have wrapped around, and you can see it's picking
at even points on the cord length around it,
I can even up the
number of points to make it a little hard core, two sketch
segments, sketch points, sketch segments,
not a big deal, hit okay.
Now because this is a spline, it's going to convert
it to a fixed shape because I've got the handles all over
it, not a big deal, hit okay, and now you can see I've got
a spline that's cut into equal segments around there.
so pretty powerful tool, pretty easy to use, if you hit
control Z, you can undo it, so you won't lose any work
if you don't like the segment that you get, you can back it
up, but there is no way to go in after the fact and edit the
segment like you did a pattern
or any other feature in SolidWorks
So once you accept that sketch, it's going to be
a permanent change, but that's the sketch segment feature.