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Sketch relations

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- [Instructor] To prepare for taking an exam we want to make sure we're very comfortable with sketch relationships. Let's go over a few. I have a couple different lines here on the screen. First things first, I'm going to click on this line here, hold on control, choose this line here, and as soon as I release control, it gives me this little in context window that pops up. I also have the same relationships over here on the side. So colinear makes these two lines, one line or one line in a row. I can then move that line around but no matter what, these two lines are always going to be colinear. Okay. How about equal? How about this line here? Hold down control, pick that line right there, and release control and I get the option for equal. Now I can snap endpoints so I can say this endpoint here is going to snap to the end there and I can take this endpoint here and snap that one to there. Now these are equal but they're not parallel so let's go ahead and take this line here, and…

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