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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

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- [Narrator] Once we've created an assembly, I'm going to now show you how to operate with the individual parts in the assembly and make a few other adjustments before we start mating these components together. Number one is you can see over here on the left hand side in the feature manager, we have all the individual components over here. And if you actually jump into those components by clicking on the twirl down, you can see all the features that make up those parts right there and available to you. So, you could actually modify these parts on the fly. So, if you are in an assembly you could actually click on this thing here and you could open the part, open it in position, and you can open the drawing. You can also edit the part in position if you need to. So, you've got a whole bunch of different options of operating with these parts. If you want more of these parts in your assembly, it's pretty straight forward and easy to do, you can actually hold done control and select it…

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