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Linking sketches to other parts

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Linking sketches to other parts

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- One of the most powerful things you can do inside of SolidWorks is to link features from one part to another. In this case here, I'd like to have this cap automatically adjust its size to the size of this base down here. If you take a look at the parts themselves, so click on this one this here, click on "Open the Part", and you can see I've got a basic revolve here and it's defined by this three-inch diameter. If I then go over to the other part and click on "Tile" and look at the assembly, I can take a look at this part here, you can see I've got a very similar sketch. This one is also defined by that three-inch diameter. Go ahead and exit out of that sketch, and let's go back to the assembly. Now what I would like to do is I would like to link these together by separating that dimension from the individual part and linking it to the base part. So, to do that, I need to edit a part in context, and what that means is clicking on this part here, and instead of clicking on "Open…

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