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Create the D-Pad buttons

Create the D-Pad buttons - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Create the D-Pad buttons

- [Instructor] We now have a controller assembly with some buttons on one side only. And in this video, we're going to make a D-pad, or a directional pad, to go on this right-hand side. The D-pad is pretty similar to the current buttons that we've already made. So we're actually going to edit this current part and create a new configuration. Open that button part. And this was how we left it, we've just got those four circular buttons. To get to the configuration manager, all we do is click this icon here on the right, configuration manager. And if you haven't used configurations before, they're fairly simple, but they can also be quite powerful, and they essentially allow us to create different versions of the same part, but within one single part file. At the moment, we've just got this single default configuration. Let's select that and rename it with a slow double click, or we can select it and press F2. We'll call…

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