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Reference geometry

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- [Instructor] Sometimes while working with more complicated assemblies, we're going to need to add in some reference geometry. Now adding reference geometry to assemblies is almost exactly the same as adding it to parts. So we click under the reference geometry tab up here at the top under assembly. Notice I have plane, axis, coordinate system, point, center of mass, and mate reference. So starting off with plane, most of the time when you create a plane, it's going to ask you for certain references. That's going to be a plane, a point, or a line. If I just choose one of those, I can choose a plane. It just makes an offset from that plane. If I end up choosing a couple different things, it's going to allow me to hinge that off of a certain, or maybe add an angle to something that I can adjust this angle here by saying this face, I'm giving it 130 degree angle from that edge. It's rotating around that edge. So its a couple quick ways to add reference planes to your part. I can also…

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