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Understanding work features

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Understanding work features

- [Instructor] As we begin to finish up the sketching portion of the course and work our way towards part mantling, I wanted to pause for a moment and look at work planes and work features. Now you've already seen these being used throughout this course in different areas, most specifically, you've seen it in the origin geometry. The origin geometry can be found here in the upper-left corner, and if you click the plus symbol next to the Origin folder, you'll see the origin geometry, which is made up of three planes, three axes, and a center point, which are all work features. If we zoom in to look at these a little more closely, you can see that we have several planes, several axes, and the center point. These are all work features. It just so happens that Inventor creates them for you for every single part. And you're going to use work planes in some manner for every single part. The very first sketch you're going to create will always be on one of these work planes. That doesn't…

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