From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling a Bicycle

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Add the dropouts and adjust the frame

Add the dropouts and adjust the frame - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling a Bicycle

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Add the dropouts and adjust the frame

- [Instructor] Previously, we created the rear dropout part and this is fairly simple but as we said, you can adjust this to suit your own needs. In this video, we'll be adding this to the main frame and then adjusting the rest of the frame to suit it. So open the bike assembly that we've been working on and it should look something like this. The dropout's going to fit into this back corner here and we're going to have to trim away a little bit of the rear frame there to get it to fit properly. Go to the Assembly tab and click on Insert Components. And then if you've got the dropout part open, it should appear here. If not, you can click Browse and find it on your computer. So select the part and let's put it in roughly the right position here. And then let's rotate it around to roughly the correct orientation. So you can move it around by left clicking and dragging. You can rotate it by right clicking and dragging.…

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