- [Instructor] One of the sketch settings
we don't often think about
is the Automatic Solve Sketch setting.
If we're in a sketch and we go to Tools,
Sketch Settings, and Automatic Solve,
by default it'll be turned on.
Now what that does is it give us the ability
to manipulate our sketch on the fly.
It allows SolidWorks to do the computations
required to figure out how that geometry should react
as we drag and drop things
and move it about the sketch plane.
If we go to the Help here,
it doesn't give you too much more information,
it just says that it uses automatic computation
to solve the sketch geometry.
Now if we turn that setting off,
I'm going to go into Settings here and turn that off,
I no longer can go and grab and drag
and move points and entities around.
Everything's basically stuck where it is
because it can't do any more computation.
You can select different entities if you want
and delete them, that's not a problem.
You can do things like that.
I can add a new sketch line in and keep drawing,
but I can't manipulate the items after I've created them.
So the reason you'll want to use this option
is going to come when you're going to be importing very large DXFs
or DWGs into your sketches.
Sometimes, these have thousands
and thousands of entities inside of them
and SolidWorks just simply can't do the computation
required and handle it.
It's going to make your system crash.
So before you import a very large layout drawing,
for example,
you're going to want to go in and toggle that setting off.
But in your day-to-day operations,
you're going to want to keep Automatic Solve on
so you can quickly edit your sketches
and manipulate them on the fly.