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Starting an assembly

Starting an assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Starting an assembly

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- [Instructor] Once you've designed several parts inside of SolidWorks, the next logical step is going to be to combine those parts together into an assembly. So to get started we need to open several more parts and then we're going to go ahead and build an assembly from them. So right over here I'm going to click on the file open, or you can come right up here to the top of the screen here and click on open right up there. And I happened to be in chapter 11, 11_01. And I already have this part here which is the 11.1.1 open. I'm going to open this next three here. So I'm going to hold down shift and select those next three parts, and then go ahead and click on open. So each one of those should open up and then what I can do is go to window, tile horizontally and you can see all the individual parts that happen to be opened up. Now we need to choose which one of these parts we want to be our original part that's going to…

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