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Creating a coordinate system

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Creating a coordinate system

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- [Instructor] Each SolidWorks part has a origin, as well as a default coordinate system. Notice down here is a triad and we have an X, a Y and a Z direction and over here as our origin. Now, notice our origin happens to be just randomly in the middle of my part. So sometimes you might want to actually create your own coordinate system where you'd like. This is especially useful if you're trying to figure out, like a moment of inertia of the part or you want to weigh it or find the center of mass and you want to use that default coordinate system to define where that is. Its also helpful if you ever get into C and C machining, you can define where that work offsets going to be by establishing a new coordinate system. So I want to point out here, if I go up to evaluate, I can come over here to mass properties, its using the center of mass over here and its using all these values at the center of mass from that default…

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