W2K+SP4, SW5 SP0. I'm a total newbie to SW and am trying to teach myself by working through the tutorials, but have come to a grinding halt.
All went fine until halfway through the tutorial called "Advanced Design Techniques".
The first problem came at item 1 in the section called "Creating the Layout Sketch" where it says "Open a sketch on the large model face, and name it 'layout for cuts'". How do I do this? I could only name the sketch after I had created it ,not as I created it (so I circumvented the problem somewhat).
The problem that has stopped me completely is in the section called "Creating the Hinge - 3Cuts". At step 3 I click "closed contour", but when I click OK I get another box saying...
"This operation requires selecting: for offset of model edges -one or more connected model edges -one model face -one model face and an edge of the face to specify the loop for offset of external sketch entities -one or more connected sketch entities -one entity on a closed contour -one external sketch with a closed outer contour OK"
I'm stumped. What on earth does this mean, and what do I do now? Is it me? Have I done something wrong? If so, what? Can anyone help please?