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Asset Publisher for Magnetic Mates

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Asset Publisher for Magnetic Mates

- [Instructor] Magnetic mates are just plain awesome, but before we can start using magnetic mates, we need to use the asset publisher to create the connection points between them. To get started, let's go up here under tools, and come down here to asset publisher. Now we already have a part opened up that we want to create magnetic mates on, and so now we're going to use the asset publisher to define the ground plane and then create the connection points. All right, so the first thing is the ground plane. I want to spin my model around and I'm going to choose the bottom of that part right there, and notice the arrow is facing down. So I'm going to have that so it's going to go and mate downward. That's what we want. If you wanted to you could put a spacing here, which is a distance off the ground plane, but in this case here, we don't want to do that, we just want to make it all the way down to the ground plane. And then…

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