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SOLIDWORKS 2018: What’s New – Reverse Tangency Direction in Sketches!

Monday, October 9th, 2017

Today, we’re going to be diving into a new SOLIDWORKS 2018 sketch enhancement when working with arcs and splines – reverse endpoint tangency! We’ll see the various situations where this new tool can help complete both simple and complex sketches.

Before 2018, when sketching a tangent arc or making two splines tangent to each other – this would happen:


OR

The arc or spline would flip the opposite tangency you were aiming for. Do you remember how you fixed it? Often, I found myself having to delete the arc and spline and recreating them.

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