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Introduction to assemblies

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Introduction to assemblies

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- We're now to the portion of the course where we can begin to take the knowledge we've gained so far and put that together, in order to build assemblies. You know how to create sketches, you know how to create parts. An assembly is essentially a file that's simply a container, for other parts and assemblies. By creating individual parts and then grouping them together in an assembly, you can add rules called constraints that teach the parts how they connect to each other so that they can be tested as if they were built in the real world. On the screen, you can see a universal joint system I've created to show this example. This assembly is made up of several different parts. In the browser you can see things such as the base part which is grounded, indicated by this pin icon. You can also see that we have connectors, we have joints, we have a crank rod, we have the crank handle, and we have several pins connecting all those joints together If we expand this base, you can see that we…

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