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Create the chain and seat stay bridges

Create the chain and seat stay bridges - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling a Bicycle

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Create the chain and seat stay bridges

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- The Rear triangle is now almost complete. And the final things that we're going to add are two small bridges between the Seat Stays and the Chain Stays like almost everything in cycling not every frame has these. And there's a bit of a debate about whether they're actually needed for stiffening the frame or whether they're just there for mounting things on like mud guards or fenders. In this model, I'm going to go a bit more traditional and add them in. But if you prefer, you can leave them off. Open the Assembly and let's insert a new part by going to Assembly, Insert Components, New Part. And as usual, depending on your settings at this point you might be prompted to enter a file name and if so call this first part Seat Stay Bridge and then we're back in the Assembly and we can choose the Plane to start this part. So I'm going to select the Right Plane of the Assembly. You can select it here on the left. And now this…

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