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Creating a plan of attack

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Creating a plan of attack

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- [Voiceover] We now understand what we need to do to use these subassemblies. But what do we need to do before we even open the Subassembly Composer? In a word, tons. As with any code, the legwork of getting organized and ready is vastly more important than the actual code. But fear not, this is always time well spent. If you ever doubt this, just develop a subassembly without it and note the number of repeat tasks you end up doing. That's not a threat, it's just words of wisdom from someone that's often decided to skip this step and paid dearly for it. So, let's look at this process step by step. When I begin creating a new subassembly, I always start with the most basic and that's Napkins. Paper works too. This step always helps me organize my thoughts. Makes sure I'm not trying to develop four subassemblies at one time. After I have my napkin sketch and I understand what I really want to develop, I go straight to Google Sketch and I create a sketch I can then look at and ensure…

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