Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hey this is Rohit with another SolidWorks quick tip for you guys if you like what you see here check us out at solidwize.com where we have hundreds of SolidWorks tutorials to help you guys learn SolidWorks today i wanna talk about contour selection if you right-click in on your mouse and come down to the bottom here there's an option called contour select tool and when you're inside an extrusion you also have a box at the bottom for selected contours so there's a little bit of a debate on how much information they should be putting inside a sketch some say that you should keep your sketch very simple and some say should try to put as much information to a single sketch as possible we have two sketches here to start one is simply the base for this part and we create features and sketches after the fact and the second here has all of our contours in a single sketch and in the features are built from that single sketch so i tend to prefer this method and i would say use this method as long as your sketch doesn't get too difficult to manage and so if you get to the point where a single change to one part of the sketch starting to ruin the rest of sketch that's when you typically know that you have too many items in a single sketch but for example if you're taking the SolidWorks certified professional exam you want to use a single sketch as it significantly faster for producing the part that you tried to create so I'm gonna go back in and remake both of these parts or both of these bodies and i'll go ahead and delete out the features to do that so to start i'll go ahead and build off of the sketch on the right and in this method i've created the entire body first or the piece of stock that I'd be using and then i create a sketch on this space to remove out material and then I created another sketch on the top face another circle and then created another cut and lastly i create the slots profile on the top base and then cut through the part now on the other side with everything in the same sketch with me that come in an extrusion start using contours or we can right click in the and choose that contour select tool in this case by choosing outside ring and then this portion of the part is coming to an extrusion or simply use the instant 3D to drag this out to consider if you're also combining this with the instant 3D SolidWorks that this will be a lot faster of a way to create these features but either method is valid like i said i tend to prefer the contour select method as it allows you to put everything in one sketch and manage everything from there typically in a more complex part you'll use some combination of multiple contours and then possibly add sketches to other faces at a later point to make modifications keep in mind that you do have both of these options available when creating your part
B1 sketch contour method single select selection SolidWorks Best Practices: Use Contour Selection to Speed up Modeling by SolidWize 83 5 Jason posted on 2013/11/25 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary