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Add new parts to the assembly

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Add new parts to the assembly

- [Instructor] Now that we finished the heater parts we can add them to the assembly. Firstly, open the main Stirling engine assembly that we worked on before. You'll want to open the file Stirling Engine Assembly_05_01 Start and make sure that the file is in the same directory as your other project files. And now we want to add those eight new parts that we made to this assembly. And there's a few ways you can do this in SOLIDWORKS. Firstly, you can open the parts. So for example, here's the heater bracket block, the first part. And then if you go back to the assembly, remember you can press control tab to go between open documents. Then go to the assembly tab and press insert components, and you should see your part there. Then you can just left click, and just left click somewhere in the graphics area, like we did for the other parts. But there's actually a quicker way you can do this. If you open your folder…

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