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Using display states

Using display states - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using display states

- [Instructor] Display states can be used to predefine any combination of component appearance, visibility, display style and transparency and we can use these display states within our animations. So, I have four display states of this assembly. So, I have the default which what I'm seeing currently, can just double click on the red here and see it's pretty much the same, just my gear has changed colors to red, blue, and green. So, these are simple display states but really you can have a whole bunch of your components changing to whatever colors, transparency, display styles you may like and then you can use these within your animation. So, I'm gonna go back to my default here for a second and then I'll just use these within my animation. So, I'll go back to my Motion Study 1 here. Take a look at the defaults, I'll just play through and right now it's just the default or the gray gear wheel playing through my standard animation there but it really just works the exact same way as…

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