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Project: Valve housing sketches

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Project: Valve housing sketches

- [Instructor] So for the first project, we're gonna be designing a valve housing. Let's get from the very beginning. Go to New. Make sure we have our units set up correctly. Make sure we're creating a model. We have our folder set correctly. Again, if you don't remember to set your folder correctly, you can always go back and do a save as, to save it to the correct location. And then give it a name. Select OK and there's the start of our file. So what I like to tell people, when you're designing, depending on what you're designing, in like in this case we're designing a valve housing, we wanna make sure we get the main body. Everything's gonna attach to that main body, so we wanna use that as a reference for everything else. So we'll go into our Sketch in Task Environment, select my x, y plane. My horizontal reference is going to be x. And the origin, we'll just use the work part origins. Select OK. I wanna draw a circle. Once again, when I select that initial sketch origin, it's…

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