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Building your first assembly

Building your first assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Building your first assembly

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- [Instructor] In this Quick Start movie, we're going to be building our very first assembly. Let's go ahead and open up a few parts. So up here under the Home icon, I'm going to come down here and open this 2.2 file. Then let's go ahead and create an assembly from this part here. So a couple of ways to do that, but the first way I'm going to show you is go over under File, come down here and say Make an Assembly From Part. That's pretty much the easiest way that I know to do that. By default, it automatically selects that file 'cause it's pretty much the only one I have open. And then go ahead and click on OK. It just goes ahead and takes that file and it puts it into my assembly. Now this looks exactly like the part that we were just working on except we're now in the Assembly environment, so things are a little bit different. So once I have an assembly over here, it shows up as my part. If you want to make maybe a couple of those parts, you can actually hold down Control on your…

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