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Inserting labels

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Inserting labels

- [Instructor] Now, let's say I want to throw in some labels to help describe some of my assembly components. So again, a label is a collaborative actor, so I want to navigate to my author tab, as that's where most of my collaborative actors are held, and right in the middle I can find a label command. I can hit the dropdown, and I'll see a number of different labeling options here, but the one I'm using most often is just the label option, and to use my label command, I can just hover over any component, and you'll see that the label property will automatically change to that specific component. So if I hover over the motor, for example, it will say motor, or the propellor will say propellor, and so on. So once I'm happy with my selection, I just need to click once to start my label, and then click again wherever I'd like to place my label. Notice that in most commands in Composer, you continue in that command once you've used it once. So I'm throwing in an additional label here. If…

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