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Creating and editing components in an assembly

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Creating and editing components in an assembly

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- [Voiceover] Now that you know how to place components into an Assembly file, we can look at how we can create and edit parts within the context of this assembly. What we're going to do is we're going to create a handle that'll go on the end of this arm. We can either go to the Assemble tab under the Component panel and select Create or we can right-click and select Create Component from the Marking menu. That's what I'm going to do. Once you select that, the Create In-Place Component dialogue box is presented, and we can enter all the information we need to create this component in the context of this assembly. First, we need a name. In this case, I'm going to name it Handle, and just to the right of that, we have a Template that we can select. It defaults to Standard.ipt, and that's going to work in most cases, but if needed, you can change that. For example, we could create a blank assembly file or we could create a Sheet Metal part or a Weldment assembly. We didn't cover these in…

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