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Sensors

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- [Instructor] On the exam, you may see a problem that's asking you to calculate the mass of a certain volume of something, and you know, probably, how to create that using some surfacing tools, but then we want to weigh something and adjust a dimension so that we get a certain volume or a certain weight. To do that, you might want to use the sensor tool. If you don't use sensors on a regular basis, you might not know how to use them. They're actually pretty straightforward and easy to use, and more than likely they're showing up here right under History in your Feature Manager. If you don't see the sensor here, right click anywhere on the top of that tree. Right click and say Hide/Show Tree Items and then you get this window that pops up and you have all the options here. One of them is called Sensors. If you have the option of Automatic or Show, turn it to Show, click OK, and now you'll see Sensors right over here. And…

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