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Define the overall component container

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Define the overall component container

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- [Instructor] Now it's time to assemble all of the pieces into a super unit, which is itself, a component. So what we need to do is select all of these parts and then right-click and choose make component. I'll call this one picket fence. And I want to specify the component axes for this component, so I'll click here. And I want that to be on the back of the fence, rather than the front, which is where it is by default. So I'll click right here to specify that origin point. And then I need to specify the direction of the red axis. I want that to be along the world red axis, so I'll click right here. The green axis is the same story, so I need to click along the green axis. And that specifies the origin point for our dynamic component. I just need to click create and it's created. So we can see over here in the outliner, what we have in terms of structure. We have the top level, which is called picket fence and it has all these sub-components within it, which we can call children. So…

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