- [Presenter] In this section, we're going to to look through
the various sketch settings
that are available in SolidWorks.
We're going to start with Automatic Relations.
Now by default, Automatic Relations are already on.
"What does that mean?"
While I'm creating a sketch, as I drag points along,
you see that yellow icon that pops up?
Automatically, it's creating relations for
vertical, horizontal, a specific angle,
coincident,
all of the things that can make it snap together
and make it quick to align and give constraints.
If I pull it down here, you can see
that I get this straight line and
the perpendicular line constraint
popping up in the bottom right
It's adding all of these constraints as I go along,
and these relations rather.
Now, if I go to Tools, go to Sketch Settings,
and then turn off Automatic Relations,
I'm going to just start sketching again and see what happens.
Now, as I drag, the only thing
that we seem to get is the alignment.
It lets you align with different features
that already exist and it'll let me snap
because I have Snapping on, but really
it's not adding any relations.
Even as I draw it like this, if I click on that line,
it doesn't have any relations on it.
As opposed to these lines which have all of the relations
that were made as it snapped into place:
the vertical, the horizontal, all of that.
This has no relations.
Very simply, turning on and off Automatic Relations
will automatically make relations or not.
I can go back in, click on it,
and turn it right back on.
Then as I start sketching, I'm going to do the same thing,
just drag a straight line over,
now we got a line with the horizontal relation.
Sometimes you want to have relations,
sometimes you want more freedom,
and you don't want it to lock in,
because you're going to be dragging things all over
and kind of working free form.
It's all up to preference,
but now you know where to find the option.