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Add ribs to the front half

Add ribs to the front half - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Add ribs to the front half

- [Instructor] In the last video, we focused on creating the ribs in the back half of the controller. And in this one, we're going to add some similar ribs to the front. This will be a little bit easier than the previous video 'cause we can actually reuse that rib sketch that we already drew. But we also need to consider that we need to leave a gap for the buttons. With this in mind, let's open our controller assembly. So we've got the back half with the ribs, and then we've also got the front half with no ribs. We're going to edit this front half, but within the assembly, and to do this, you can just select the part with the left-click, and press edit part. We're now editing this part, and you can see this because we've got this icon in the top right. And also the other parts in the assembly. So just the other half in this case, have gone to this semi-transparent view. Let's start adding ribs using a similar…

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