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Building your first assembly

Building your first assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Building your first assembly

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- In this movie, we're going to do a quick start assembly. Now, I'm not going to cover every single detail to create an assembly, but I'm going to cover the basics. What it's going to take to grab some parts and build an assembly inside of SolidWorks. To get started, let's go ahead and open a part. I'm going to click on Open. And I'm in Chapter 2, and I'm going to go ahead and choose this first part here, which is 2.2-1, click Open. And there's the same part that we created in the quick start part movie. And now we're going to use that to create an assembly. So, to do that it's really straightforward. Come up here to File, and say Make Assembly From Part. It's going to take that part, it's going to put it into our brand new assembly. And here we go. So, it chooses that part right there. Click on the green check mark. And all of a sudden it brings that part into the assembly environment. Now, notice the environment…

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