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Customizing the feature tree

Customizing the feature tree - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Customizing the feature tree

- [Educator] Customizing your feature tree is a great way to keep it organized and actually understand what's going on without having a mess and hundreds of parts for example, creating a long list that you really can't make sense out of. In this custom assembly that I have, you notice that I've got a bunch of parts in it and a sub assembly, some are hardware that I've downloaded, some are custom parts. But what I've done is created a hardware folder inside of it. So I can sort all of my Mcmaster-Carr hardware separately. Now to make a new folder, you simply select an item, right click and say add to new folder. When you do that it's going to create the folder and you can rename it there. When you're done you just click somewhere else and it accepts it and you'll see your item listed under there. Now if you don't want to use that folder, you decide that's not what you want you can right click on that and hit delete,…

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