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Moving parts

Moving parts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Moving parts

- [Instructor] If you want to move individual parts, or move groups, we've already seen how to do that a little bit. I want to get into it a little bit more. So up here at the top of the screen, notice I have the Selection Tool. So, I can choose individual models, individual parts, or individual groups. Let's go ahead and select the individual Part. And, go ahead and choose something like this part right over here. Now, with that selected, I can use this triad here and move that part around on my screen. I also have the ability over here to adjust some of those transformation controls, as far as the scale, the rotation, and the position of that part. So, if I just wanted to move that in certain direction, of course I can grab this and move it. And notice that value is changing of where that component happens to be in relationship to the other components. So, I can move things around very easily. I can then freeze them. Now, I can do the exact same thing by choosing an entire group…

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