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Cut the first access holes using in-context editing

Cut the first access holes using in-context editing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Cut the first access holes using in-context editing

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- [Instructor] If we look at the enclosure assembly, we can see it's now looking a little bit better. But the main problem is, that we can't access any of the ports. If I make this top part semi transparent, you can see we can't access any of these sockets. So we're going to add some cutouts around the top part so we can use these. To do this, we're going to use in context editing. So this means that we'll be editing within the assembly. And this allows us to ease features from the PCB model to line up the cutouts that we need on the enclosure model. All of the cutouts are on this top part. So let's edit that part by left clicking on it, and then choosing the fourth option, which is edit part. So now you can see, as usual, all of the parts. that we aren't editing have gone to this wire frame view. The first thing that we need to do is, draw a sketch for the cutouts and we could just use this large flat face. But the problem…

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