From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
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Add the D-Pad buttons to the assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
Add the D-Pad buttons to the assembly
- [Instructor] In the last video we created the D-pad, and now we'll add it to the assembly. Open your assembly, and it should look something like this. We've got these buttons just on the left-hand side. We can now mirror these over to the other side. Select the button part, either in the Parts tree or in the Graphics area, and then hold down Control and select the right plane. Then go to Linear Component Pattern here on the Assembly tab, click on the dropdown, and select Mirror Components. Here on the mirror plane we should have the right plane, and the components to mirror should be the button feature. Then you can just press OK. So now those buttons are mirrored over to the right-hand side. But we actually wanted the D-pad here, didn't we? And it's very easy to change this. All we have to do is select that feature, and then you should now see a little dropdown at the top. Select this, and we can choose between the two…
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