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- So now we have the pushrods working. In fact, I've gone ahead and just left the animation on so we can kind of see how this works. So now let's go ahead and move up the chain and work on what the pushrods are pushing, which is these beams. So what we need to do is to get these rocking up as the pushrods push them up. So I'm going to go ahead and just move this up out of the way so that you can see how the pushrod kind of moves up here. So how this is going to work is we're going to create a locator and then this is going to use that locator to aim at. So let's go ahead and start by creating a locator. Going to go ahead and move that up. And then, I want to snap this to the top of that pushrod. So I'm going to go ahead and do Snap to Points and just kind of snap it up there at the very top. And then I'm going to go ahead and move my beam back into place. And its place is always zero which is a very nice place to be. So now I want this to aim at the locator. But before we do that, I…

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