From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling a Bicycle

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Add the seat stays

- [Instructor] In the previous video, we laid out some more sketches in the assembly to help us make the parts of the rear triangle. And in this one, we're going to build upon those to create one of our chain side parts. From within the assembly, let's insert a new part by going to Assembly, Insert Components, New Part. Now, similar to the previous new parts you might be prompted to enter a file name at this point depending on your settings. And if so, just call the part chain state. But by default, we should just be in the assembly with is green tech ready to choose a plane for that new part. So let's choose the chain state plane that we previously added and then go to a normal two view. You can press the Space bar to open this View menu and then click on normal too. So now we're looking directly up at that plane that was getting on. Now we want to sketch a path from the end of the axle here down to the bottom bracket…

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