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Working with the Cut list

Working with the Cut list - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with the Cut list

- Any time a weldment is created, an automatic cut list is added to the feature manager tree. You can find the feature manager tree over here on your left, and you can expand out the cut list here. You can find all the individual structural members that go ahead and build up this weldment. If I right click on the top of that cut list, I can say Update, and then it'll put each one of the structural members into a folder, grouped by the type of weldment that it is. You can see here, if I expand out these two weldments, all the individual structural members are still there based upon the group they were in when we created them. Now if I want to create a bounding box, if I want to bring this part into a new part, I can do all that from here. I can click on any one of these structural members here, right click on it, and you can see I've got Insert into New Part right here, I can change the transparency of it. I can work with individual pieces of this weldment directly from the cut list. I…

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