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Linking sketches to other parts

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Linking sketches to other parts

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- Let's talk about in-context editing. Now in this example, I've got a base part right here, and I've got a cover. And what I'd like to happen is that the cover will automatically adjust in size based upon the size of the base. Now to do that we need to do in-context editing. So we're going to be modifying a part in the context of the assembly, and then linking that dimension to the size of the base. To do that, what I need to do first, is take a look at this part. So I click on that part here and click on open, and you can see here, we just have a simple revolve, and if I twirl this down, I can take a look at the sketch. Inside of that sketch, you can see we've got some dimensions here. Now this three inch dimension right here is the one that is controlling the size of that cover. So we want to replace that dimension, with actually a link to that base part. But to do that, we need to actually modify this part in the…

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