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Building your first assembly

Building your first assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Building your first assembly

- In this section of the quick-start guide we're going to be building an assembly, but before we build an assembly we need to have some parts to assemble together. So I'm going to review the part creation process, so click on new, choose a part, and click on OK. I'm going to choose a sketch, I'm going to start that sketch on the front plane, and here it is starting a sketch. Now I'm going to choose a rectangle tool. So I have a bunch of options for rectangle tools, this one's a corner rectangle, this is a center rectangle, I'm going to choose center rectangle. And I'm going to start right there at the origin, and I'm going to draw out a rectangle, just by clicking and dragging. I'm going to use my dimensioning tool, I'm going to dimension it from the top to the bottom and then place the dimension over on the right-hand side. I'm going to type in 2.0 inches. I'm going to do exactly the same thing here, but instead of adding a dimension, I'm going to add a, what's called a relationship.…

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