{"id":3465,"date":"2016-03-31T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2016-03-31T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:03:48","slug":"solidworks-tech-tip-offset-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/solidworks-tech-tip-offset-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Offset Entities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you offset entities? Did you know there are a whopping seven options in the PropertyManager to help get you to your desired results? Here\u2019s my challenge to you \u2013 I want you to pick a command you use regularly, let\u2019s say Extruded Cut for example. The next time you use your chosen command, I want you to work the PropertyManager top to bottom and left to right and make sure you\u2019re not missing an option that could be saving you a ton of time. When it comes to extruded cuts, I\u2019m a big fan of the Flip side to cut checkbox.\u00a0Let me know which option you discover (or rediscover) that makes you smile<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VJetxhUEPHE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Offset Entities and Convert Entities\u00a0Commands, head over to MySolidWorks and check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.solidworks.com\/mylearning\/lessons\/520\/sketch-convert-and-offset-entities\" target=\"_blank\">Sketch: Convert and Offset Entities\u00a0Training Module<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted by Rachel Diane York in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2015\/09\/solidworks-tech-tip-offset-entities.html\" target=\"_blank\">SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you offset entities? Did you know there are a whopping seven options in the PropertyManager to help get you to your desired results? Here\u2019s my challenge to you&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,23,37,25],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-cad","tag-design","tag-hints-tips","tag-solidworks-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}