From the course: Learning CATIA v5
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Moving parts around
- [Instructor] Here I want to discuss how we move components around within the context of the assembly. So it's very important you pay attention once again to the modeling tree. You'll notice that at the very top level you have your product. This product needs to be blue. In other words, the working part. If something else is blue, as in, I double-click on one of these elements, this becomes the working part. The assembly is no longer the working part. All of the modifications I'm going to do now need to be done at the assembly level. So I want to make sure that the product is my working part, so I'll just double-click on it, it's now the part that I'm going to be modifying. With that, I'm going to move some of these components around. Yes they came into the correct design position, but what I want to do is I want to constrain these back to each other. Now in order to do that, I need to move them out of the way, and in some cases it's much easier to move the component out, and then…
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