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Drag a component

Drag a component - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Drag a component

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- [Instructor] So I walked you through a start of our script, and we're gonna start by using the drag the component method, and I want to show you what it looks like. I've got a motion study here called Drag, and you'll notice what it does is it moves the Box-Lid, so if I'm at the zero second mark, the Box-Lid is closed, and when I'm at the six second mark the Box-Lid is open. So if I play it from the start, this is what it looks like. See how cool that is? Okay, so how did I do that? So I'm gonna open this motion study here, and I'm just gonna use my Box-Lid, and if you look at the Mates, I've got a Concentric Mate here, where the handle is in the back, and a Coincident Mate where it's basically centered on the box, but I don't have any mate that mates it to the top lid of the box or controls the angle in any way. So it's under-constrained, and you can see that it's under-constrained 'cause it has the minus in front of it. So you start by saying at what time do you want to start the…

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