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Direct editing: Move/copy bodies

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Direct editing: Move/copy bodies

- [Instructor] The Direct Editing toolbar inside of SolidWorks is one of the most powerful toolbars or feature sets inside of SolidWorks. And the Move/Copy Body command is one of my favorites. Let me show you how it works. Right now, we only have one solid body, so it's not really going to be that interesting. Let's go ahead and create one more solid body inside of this part. To do that, I'm going to go ahead and choose the Front Plane here, start a sketch, create a circle, and let's just put this circle kind of over here on the side. Create a feature, extrude it out, I'm going to say 1/2 of an inch thick, and then click on OK. Now, if you wanted to move this circle here into the center over here, you could just go back to the sketch, move it over in the sketch, and everything would be fine. But, for instance, if you didn't have that ability or didn't want to do that, you have the ability to use the Move/Copy Body command. So let's go up here to Direct Editing. Click on Move/Copy…

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