- At this point and time we're ready
to do some 3D sketching.
To get started with 3D sketching
I'm not going to choose a plane
like I would normally do if I'm going to start a sketch.
All I'm going to do is go over here to Sketches,
click on the drop-down directly below Sketch here,
and click on 3D Sketch, okay.
I'm going to choose the Line command
and notice I'm in this XY plane.
You can tell that by the icon directly below my cursor.
It doesn't really matter though
because I'm just going connect the dots.
So I'm going to choose from this point here
up to this point right here
and then just double-click real quick
which will end that line segment,
do the same thing right here.
I'm going to start from this point here
and drag a line vertically up to the line here,
and if it didn't happen to snap to vertical,
if it happened to be over here maybe,
that's totally fine as long as it's connected
to this line at the top.
I can then click on this line and I'd say,
"Along X, Along Y, or Along Z",
and you'll notice down here is a little triad
showing that the Y is going vertical.
That's what I want it to be along,
so click on Along Y, and click OK,
and there you have it.
Click back on that Line command,
align from there to there,
align from here up to there,
and then one from here to there.
This one shows up as blue
so I might not have got that vertical relationship,
so make sure you go ahead and click on Along Y on that one,
click OK, and there it is.
Now I can do the exact same thing
for the other side of the sketch if I wanted to,
however we really want to start using some patterning
and mirroring in this design.
So instead of drawing a bunch more lines
on the outside of the drawing with a sketch,
let's just go ahead and mirror them
once we've already created the structural members
inside the weldment's package.
So for this, that's all the 3D sketching that I'm going
to do to define everything we need.