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Adding assemblies to drawings

Adding assemblies to drawings - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding assemblies to drawings

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- [Instructor] Once we have an assembly inside of SolidWorks, the next logical step is to create a drawing of that assembly, and detail out which parts are what, create a bill of materials, and label and define all of the features and the components that happen to be in that assembly. So to get started, I want to show you which assembly I have open up right here. So, I'm going to click on open and head over here to the desktop, which is under Exercise Files. I'm in Chapter 18, 18_01, and I have this example assembly opened up, and the very first file you see in there, called SW 2020-A1, is the one I have opened up, and that's what we're going to be working with in this video. Now, down here, you can see all the individual parts that are inside of there, so you can play with those if you'd like, but we're only going to be opening that top level assembly. Okay, it's already open, so I'm going to hit cancel, and so here it…

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