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Copy, rename, and move

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- [Instructor] Because we're working in Solidworks, it's always important to take in consideration the file references. Because of this, we're not going to be able to just drag and drop or copy and paste like we usually do in Windows Explorer, unless we want to deal with a lot of errors down the road. So one of the features that we like to leverage is Solidworks Explorer, which comes standard with your installation. This gives you the ability to copy or pack and go, rename, and move files. So let's jump into Windows Explorer and see what I'm talking about. So here I have a very simple assembly. It's just got this part inside of it, which has a derived part, another pin, and then I've also got an extra part out here which isn't contained inside the assembly. If you right-click on any of the Solidworks files and you have Windows Explorer installed, you're gonna see this Solidworks option. If you go over to the right, you're gonna see Pack and Go, Rename, Replace, and Move. And they're…

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