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Arranging, copying, moving, and rotating parts in assemblies

Arranging, copying, moving, and rotating parts in assemblies - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Arranging, copying, moving, and rotating parts in assemblies

Once I have parts in my assembly I am now ready to start mating the components together. However, before I start doing that I do want to cover the basic Assembly Ribbon so you're familiar with the tools that are available to mate things together and build our assembly. So at the very top here, I have Insert Components. Now you can open the Components and just drag and drop them into our assembly. But I also have the option to click on Insert Component, go ahead and browse your file system, find the components you want to open. If they were already open, they would show up here in Open Documents, and you can click and bring them in. That's one way to do it, but there are multiple ways. Again, you can go over here to the right, click on the File Explorer, click on the Open Documents, or anywhere in your exercise files, and just click and drag them into our assembly. Here's an example, just click on one of these. Drag it in and you've got one more. That was very quick and easy way to…

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