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Create the crank

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Create the crank

- [Instructor] We've now made the flywheel and the flywheel bracket part, and the next part we're going to make is the crank. This connects the flywheel to the actual power cylinders, and we have two of this part in the assembly, but because it's the same part, we only need to make one model. Start a new SolidWorks part, and let's start a sketch on the front plane. The good thing about this part is we only need one single sketch for the whole part. Let's start off by drawing two circles. One can be at the origin and then one above it somewhere. And then the first one can be 12 millimeters diameter and the second one at 10 millimeters. And they should be 15 millimeters apart. If your sketch is still underdefined at this point, you can select the center point of that small circle, hold down control and select the origin, and then click on Make Vertical. Now we want to join these two circles together using two lines, one…

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