{"id":497,"date":"2012-08-28T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:05:46","slug":"solidworks-2013-sneak-peek-auto-dimension-while-sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/solidworks-2013-sneak-peek-auto-dimension-while-sketching\/","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks 2013 Sneak Peek: Auto-Dimension While Sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While SolidWorks has had the ability to add dimensions while sketching for some time, SolidWorks 2013 makes it a whole lot more intuitive. Now, when you enter dimension values while sketching, SolidWorks will automatically add it to the geometry.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the best part&#8211;if you don\u2019t enter a dimension value, none will be added.\u00a0 This way, you can choose just what to add, and not get a bunch of extra values you\u2019ll end up deleting later. Or, you can add the dimensions that wouldn\u2019t otherwise be created in the order you sketched. Check out the video below to see this in action.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JeOsfSKWc-M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.typepad.com\/matthewwest\" rel=\"author\">Matthew West<\/a> on August 27, 2012 at 09:38 AM on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">SolidWorks Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While SolidWorks has had the ability to add dimensions while sketching for some time, SolidWorks 2013 makes it a whole lot more intuitive. Now, when you enter dimension values while&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,19,23,25],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-46","tag-cad","tag-design","tag-solidworks-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}