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Adding in nonweldment parts

Adding in nonweldment parts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding in nonweldment parts

- Once you have a weldment part it's easy to create an assembly using that part. Then I can bring in other parts that are other weldments, or individual parts that we've brought in from SolidWorks using any of the other SolidWorks packages like sheet metal, surfaces, you name it. We can build an assembly of just about anything. To get started here's my first part, which is 3.2.1 and it's just a simple weldment that's created by using some two inch tubing. Now I'm gonna create an assembly from that, so click on file, click on make assembly from part. Go ahead and choose 3.2.1 and start the assembly. Now I'm gonna go and click on window, tile horizontally, and you can see the other parts I have open and if you don't have these parts open already, go ahead and open up 3.2.2N.3. Then I want to go ahead and drag these into my assembly, so click on the part and just drag it in. Click on this part here and just go ahead and drag that in. I'm gonna expand that window back out and you can see…

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