
Pretty neat, right? You probably already remember a project where you needed this. You just need to create a sketch, turn it into a path and then you can drag the endpoint, like this:

This allows you to model real-world items like ropes, chains and cams. Sketch paths in SOLIDWORKSĪ sketch path is a combination of sketch elements. So you want your models to move like they would in reality. Solving engineering problems is pretty damn hard.īecause usually, finding out which problem you need to solve is the hardest problem of them all. Use Select Other to select a single line in a path.

I’ll show you how: using a sketch path and a cam mate. “How does this chain drive move the product carriers?” “Can I just mate this follower along with this cam?”
