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Using equations and linked variables

Using equations and linked variables - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using equations and linked variables

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to be looking and working with equations and linked values. Now before we get started, let's go ahead and turn on Equations folder. Over here in the Features Manager you can see we don't have an Equation folder. And sometimes that folder will just pop up when it's being used. So I want to make sure we're showing that right from the beginning. So right click over here on the top level here, which is the first icon. Right click and say Hidden Tree Items, and come down here to Hide/Show Tree Items. Click on that one there. And come down here to Equations. Automatic is turned on. I want to go ahead and just Show that. And click OK. And now we have the Equations in that folder. So if you right click on Equations, you can say Manage Equations, and you get this little dialogue box that pops up. So it's a pretty easy way to get at Equations. Now right here we can create some global variables. I'm going to go ahead and type in a global variable called…

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