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Creating circular patterns

Creating circular patterns - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating circular patterns

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- [Instructor] In this example, we're going to be creating a circular component pattern. The first thing I need to do is to create an assembly, so here's the part I want to start with. And I'm going to go ahead up here to File, Make Assembly from Part, go ahead and choose the default template, go ahead and click on the green check mark to bring in that component there, and let's go ahead and drag in our other component. So if you click on Window, Tile Horizontally, I already have this other component here opened up. So let's go ahead and just drag that component directly in. And there it is. Let's go ahead and expand that out. So now, I need to do my first mate. So I'm going to rotate this component around using the right mouse button. And go ahead and mate that component together. So I'm going to say the inside surface here with outside surface there, they slide together. And then let's go ahead and choose the bottom surface there with the bottom of the fastener. There it is…

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