From the course: Modeling a Cabinet with SOLIDWORKS

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Creating reference planes for the bottom of the cabinet

Creating reference planes for the bottom of the cabinet - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Modeling a Cabinet with SOLIDWORKS

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Creating reference planes for the bottom of the cabinet

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- The part that we want to create first is going to be this base and bottom section. From a planning perspective, and using planes, I'm going to need a plane to define the width of this base. And then also the width of this bottom section. We're going to need a thickness, we are also going to need a back plane and a front plane as well. So, a front for this base, and a front for the bottom section. Let's get straight to it. Back into SOLIDWORKS, just quickly notice that the skeleton component does not have a prefix. What that means to me is that this component is floating. If I right-click on the skeleton, you'll notice that I have an option here to fix it. It is a best practice that the first part or component in an assembly, is in fact fixed. Left-click on the skeleton icon, and the fourth icon from the left is edit part, go ahead and select that. We can see that our colors changed and the confirmation corner is active. Now, if we expand the part, notice that my planes are currently…

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