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Breadcrumb tricks

Breadcrumb tricks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Breadcrumb tricks

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be talking about breadcrumbs in SolidWorks. Now, you may already know that there's breadcrumbs and they've been around for awhile in SolidWorks, but you might not be using them, or you might not be using them to the extent that you can. So, let me show you a little bit more about breadcrumbs. The first thing I want to point out, if you click on any item in your assembly or your par, you click over here, notice we get this little breadcrumb window that pops up, and notice because I've selected a face, the breadcrumb trail, here, shows up with all these individual features that went up to creating that face. Now, if you click on the face itself, I have the ability to go grab and start to sketch on that face, or I can do a mate or any of the other things here if I'd want to do. I can also come down here to the actual sketch that created that body that created that face. So, I have access to that right there. I can also take a look at the…

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