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Work Coordinate System (WCS) and triad

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Work Coordinate System (WCS) and triad

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- [Instructor] So now I wanna talk about the triad and the WCS. As you can see, the triad, it's in the lower left corner. Again, this always points to XYZ absolute coordinate. It basically is just a representation to show you how everything is oriented true to the world. Now we have what's called a work coordinates system, N and X, and we don't see it on the screen right now. So I'm gonna go and turn it on. And by default in a lot of places you may not have it pop up, so you won't be able to see it. But it's there, it's always there and it's something that it's very important you understand what it is, but you may not directly use it. So to go turn it on, I'm gonna go under tools, and under the more gallery you'll see I have all these icons for the WCS, or Work Coordinates System. And I'm gonna turn on the display. Currently, the Work Coordinates System is oriented to my absolute, my triad. You can see that x, y, z, all align. If I double click on this, you'll notice that I can change…

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