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Splitting the connecting rod

Splitting the connecting rod

- Next we will split the bottom cup from the main cone rod. Again, there are different ways we could go about doing this like severing out separate parts, but to keep things a bit simpler we will use configurations along with the split command to achieve our goal. Now select the configuration manager tab right beside the property manager tab. Let's create two new configurations by right-clicking on the part name in the tree and select add configuration. Name it cone rod and okay. Do the same to add another config and let's name it cone rod cup. Remember that the suppress features option under the advanced options is currently active. If active new features added with other configurations active are suppressed on this configuration select okay, double-click the cone rod config to make it the active configuration. Do a search for the split command. Drag it to the features command bar for easy access. Now let's run that command. In the trim tool selection box select the top line, which…

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