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Pack and Go: Creating a new version

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Pack and Go: Creating a new version

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- [Instructor] Now that we've created just a copy of this assembly using the pack and go feature, I wanna run through what we do if we wanna create something closer to a newer version of this assembly. So let's go into the pack and go feature again, file, pack and go. And what I wanna do is I don't want anybody when they see these files in my file archive to start editing them on a new version of this bike, so let's say I'm making the montage four for example. What I'm gonna do to differentiate between the versions is actually add a prefix to all of this, and I'm gonna say montage four and then after it I'm gonna say concept. So you can see when I do that, if you look at the save to names, all of the file names have been updated to have a prefix of the montage four, I'm actually gonna add a space after that so it spaces it out, and a space after this concept. So now I've got the montage four version of this part file. Now while this isn't maybe the most clean way to do it, it does…

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