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Create the piston cap

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Create the piston cap

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- [Instructor] The next part that we're going to make is the heater piston cap. This is a small cap that fits in the end of the heater piston and seals it closed. We could have just made a single solid piston, but by doing it this way, it allows us to have a part that's the same outer size, so it takes up the same volume in the cylinder, but it's much lighter, and so it should move more easily. The part's just made from a single revolve, so let's start a new part, and start a sketch on the right plane. Because it's a revolve, let's start with a center line. So start with the origin, just go horizontally out to the right, and let's set that as 15 millimeters long. Then you can use the Line tool to draw the profile. So start at the origin, go vertically up, then out to the right, down, out to the right again to the end of that center line, and then down again, in to the left, down to the center line, and then back to the…

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