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Create and edit components in an assembly

Create and edit components in an assembly - Inventor Tutorial

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Create and edit components in an assembly

- [Instructor] Now that you've learned how to place components, it's time to look at how we can create and edit components within the context of an assembly. Placing components is fine, but that assumes you've taken the time to create each and every individual component separately outside of the assembly first, and then placed them in. And that's fine in certain cases, but, often you're going to want the assembly context to be able to help you design. On the screen, you see Universal Joint.iam. If you don't have it open, go ahead and open it now. What we're going to do here is we're going to go ahead and create a handle on the end of this arm. To do that, there's a couple of ways we can access the create option. We can either go to the assemble tab here under the component panel and select create, or like many other commands, we can right click in the graphics window and select create component. When we do that we get…

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