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Inserting components

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- [Instructor] There are several different ways to insert components into an assembly, and I'm going to go over all of them. The first thing I want to do is open up all three of these parts, so it's going to be 2.21.1, 2, and 3, and I'm going to start with whatever part I want to be the base or the part that's not going to move inside of my assembly. So in this case here, I'm going to choose the 0.1 part. Go over here, click on it, and my favorite way to create an assembly is just to go up to File > Make Assembly from Part. Click on that, it's going to ask us for a template, I'm going to choose the Lynda Assembly template, but it doesn't matter which assembly template you choose, click on OK, and here's my new assembly. Now over here on my left-hand pane, I can see I've got these available open documents already preselected. I've got that same part 2.21.1 already selected. Click on OK, and that's going to drop that right into the assembly. Now notice the origin here happens to also be…

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