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Modify complex parts

- [Narrator] At some point during the exam, you might be asked to modify a part by adding some type of a revolve feature or a specific cut on one section of a part. So in this example here, you can see I have part A, which is the red part, and I need to add these three grooves to that cylinder that you see over here in the light blue part, which is the 4.6-2. Now as you can see, there's probably several different ways we could modify this part, but let me show you a couple of tricks that might make it a little bit easier. I'm going to go ahead and open up this part right here. To full screen. And you can see it. Now what I want to do is I want to isolate this cylinder here. So I can modify just that cylinder and then combine the two pieces back together. So to do that, it's pretty straight forward and easy. Right over here is that feature. Right here is that other feature here. So let's go ahead to this secondary feature, click on edit feature, and just un check the merge result…

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