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Essential Sketcher Tool in FreeCAD | FreeCAD Sketching | FreeCAD Tutorial |
May 12, 2025
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Hello friends welcome to Free tutorial
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and in this tutorial we will learn
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essential Sketcher tool in freead so for
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this here I have launched my freead now
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I will create a new
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file and I create a body and then create
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a sketch and I select this front plane
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and now here I will create a simple
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slot
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and uh we will uh see one by one
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essential Sketcher tool in
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freead so first what I will do I will uh
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select this
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slot and uh here is the first tool which
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we are going to understand is a select
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Associated constraint so once you click
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on it so you will see that uh Associated
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constraint or got
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selected here is a tangency which is got
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selected and here is a equality which is
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got selected and if you see here in a
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left hand side instead of manually
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selecting all the constraint you can use
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this tool to select the constraint and
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you can delete
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it so this is the select the associated
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constraint for example uh if you want to
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manually select for a line or Arc for
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example if I select this line and click
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on this so Associated constraint of this
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line is a tangent which got selected
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similarly uh if I create a rectangle and
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if I select this line and click on this
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icon so that vertical constraint is got
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selected so this is a very good tool if
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you're working in a sketch and you want
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to delete all the constraint and re want
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to apply the constraint then you can
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select at a
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time of all the sketches for example if
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I select this uh slot and
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rectangle so you can see here everything
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is selected and now if I click on this
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icon then both the sketch constraint is
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got
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selected now let's move to the next
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tool our next tool
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is Select Associated geometry first we
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have seen the associated constraint now
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we will go with the geometry which means
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that for example uh let's uh I select
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this vertical constraint and click on
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this icon so that Associated geometry
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gets
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selected if I select this uh equal
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constraint and I click on it
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so you can see that Arc is get
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selected the third tool we will
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understand is a show and hide internal
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geometry this this tool is applicable
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when we draw ellipse or Parabola so
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let's
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uh click on the ellipse by Center and I
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draw a
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ellipse now you can see that
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uh this is the internal geometry if I
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wanted to show it then I can show it or
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if I wanted to hide it then I will
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select the my ellipse and uh click on
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the height geometry so you can see that
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uh this geometry which we are previously
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seeing is got
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hidden now we will uh understand the
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next tool which is uh
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symmetric so for this uh we will uh
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delete this
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rectangle
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this sketch and
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now we will also delete this slot and we
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will simply create a
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rectangle and now we will give the
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dimension so let's uh see from this
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point to this point I
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give 30 horizontal and I will give the
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30 vertical as well
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and let's also constrain it I will give
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it
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uh
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30 and I will also give it the
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30 so now we have a square which is of
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30 mm horizontal and vertical height
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now I will select all
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this and we will click on the
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symmetricity so you can see that it got
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symmetric with our last selected age so
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here the age is important if I
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if I select this age this age and this
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age so for better visibility I hide the
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dimension so that you will clearly see
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the my selections for example if I
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select this one this one and this one
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and at the last I'm selecting this age
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and if I click on symmetricity so my
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sketch will be get symmetric with
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respect to my last selected Edge
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now let's uh select this axis so first I
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will select this one this one this one
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and this and then I will select my this
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vertical axis and click on the
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symmetricity so you can see that it got
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symmetric with the
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axis
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similarly I select all this and press
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the control key and select this
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horizontal axis and click on the
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symmetry so you can see that it got
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symmetric with respect to
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the so in symmetric
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constraint we
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can mirror our selected sketch with
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respect to our last selection either it
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may be uh sketch entity or it may be
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axis so that is the very important while
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using the
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symmetricity
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now
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I show you the next tool in uh Sketcher
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which is of
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uh clone or copy so here is the Clone
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copy and move options so first we will
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select all the sketch entities so here I
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have selected my square and I will click
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on the Clone so you can see that
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uh I'm seeing a line which is the
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placement line and if I click on it so
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you can see that it got
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cloned and I delete it similarly we will
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see
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the move command so clone or copy most
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are the similar now we will see the
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move so you can see that a line is
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showing and if I click on
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the screen so you can see that this age
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got moved if I again select
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it and uh click click on the
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move so this is how based on your
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selections if I select from right left
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to right and if I click on the
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move so this point is got selected and
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if I want to move it uh bottom side then
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I can simply move it now the next tool
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which we will learn is a rectangular
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array so I will select my sketch and
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click on the rectangular array options
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so
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here you will get a popup window which
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will ask you for the rows and columns so
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here I want two rows and two columns and
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uh I want equal horizontal and vertical
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spacing and I will also check this
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constraint inter element separation and
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I will click on okay so now I'm seeing a
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line which is a showing me distance and
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angle so here first I will make my angle
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zero and here is a distance so I will
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place it the distance I want for example
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I want it to the
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147 or 156 and click it so you can see
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that
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uh my sketch is got pattern and here is
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my pattern Dimension which I which I can
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change let's I make it 160 round
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off and here is a degree of my line so I
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will make it
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zero so you can see that my sketch is
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got pattern so this is how to use the
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rectangular array in a freeat Sketcher
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now let's move to the next tool which is
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remove the AIS
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alignment so to understand this AIS
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alignement I will delete this slot and I
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create a
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rectangle and now you can see that uh we
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have the horizontal and uh vertical
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constraint to this rectangle now if I
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select my rectangle and click on the
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Excel alignment then you will see that
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uh
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horizontal and vertical constraint got
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removed now this line and this line is
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parallel and this line is parallel with
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my this line and here you will see that
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perpendicularity applied so this is the
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tool where you can remove the AEL
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alignment now let's uh move to the next
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tool which is
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delete all constraint so if I select my
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rectangle and uh click on it so it will
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ask you are you sure want to delete all
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constraint say yes so constraint is got
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removed
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now you can give your own
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constraint so this is how we have
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understood the essential Sketcher tool
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in free
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CAD thank you for watching and thank you
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