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Adding slope

Adding slope - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding slope

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- [Instructor] Slants and slopes can be added to your existing pipe segments using the add slope option. Let's use this pipe segment over here to try adding a slope to our assembly. So as normal we're going to click on the segment that we would like to start with. Go over to the sub assembly, right click on it, and click on Edit Route. Now we're going to click on the segment that we'd like to add the slope to. I'm going to right click on that and then go down to the Add Slope option. Now you can see over here in the Slope Segments area we have this Line3 selected. However if you'd like to add additional segments to that you could, or switch segments at this point that is also an option. So now we're going to go down to the Gravity Plane selection. This is going to be something that our slope is going to be made relative to. So for us we're going to go over to this dropdown and select on our Top Plane. This will let us make up and down angles very easily. And we're now going to go over…

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