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Create the piston rod

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Create the piston rod

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- [Illustrator] We're now getting through the heater section parts really well, and there's only a few left and the next one is the piston rod. So start a new part. And this is probably one of the simplest parts in the model, but it's very important because it connects the piston with the flywheel. Start a sketch on the front plane and just draw a circle at the origin. That's six millimeters diameter. And then do a mid plane extrude, 17 millimeters. Rename that feature as rod. And this is essentially the full model. It's basically just a simple rod. We're going to add threads on both ends, but often when you're modeling in SolidWorks, we don't actually model the threads in whether it's a threaded hole or a rod. Often we just put a note on the part that the threads will be cut during the physical production. But just for a bit of completeness, we're going to model them in. 'Cause it's actually quite easy to do in…

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