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Inserting parts

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Inserting parts

- [Instructor] Here I'm going to create an assembly. Under Start, Mechanical Design, I'll just go right into Assembly Design. By entering in the workbench, it will actually create a part file for me. I don't have to go File, New. So now that I have my product created, I can begin inserting components or parts into the product. Again, this is one of those slightly ambiguous terms. I don't want you to get too confused about this. So we go into Product. We'll select it. And again, one of the two ways I can go about doing this is I can right mouse click, go into Components, and say Existing Component. Once I select Existing Components, it's going to ask me where do I want to go get my component from. So here, we can see my folder. I have my bezel, lower, and my upper. I can pick one component to bring in. If I had opened at this point, it will open up the part and bring it into the assembly, or I can hold my control key down and select multiple components that I want to bring into my…

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