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Making linear patterns

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Making linear patterns

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- [Instructor] Let's learn about linear patterns. Now in this movie, what I'd like to do is grab this component here. I want to then take this little cone and put it inside there, then I want to take this lid and I want to put it on top of there. Now, once I've assembled that together, I want to then pattern that into each one of these little holes here on the purple part. Now before I do this though, it's probably a good idea for me to create a subassembly of these three components and then pattern this subassembly itself versus the individual components. So if I go over here to Window, and I come down here and say Tile Horizontally, you can see I have all the different components and right down here, I've actually already created an assembly. So here you've got the base part, you've got the little cone inside, and you've got the top. Let's go ahead and cut it in half so we can see inside there. All right, so…

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