Your First Part, Start To Finish 1 3 Getting Started

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Your First Part, Start To Finish 1 3 Getting started 7 using sketcher 9 going to 3D

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Basic Dress Up Features 11 14 Pocketing 20 Dress up toolbar 21 Fillets

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Mouse Manipulation 23 24 26 28 30 34

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Zoom Rotate Panning Specification tree manipulations Rendering styles

Advanced Dress Up Features 39 41 Chamfer 44 Draft angle 47 Shell

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Constraints 52 54 55 59 62

Pick a constraint Constrain in a dialog box Concentricity Fix in space

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Reference Elements 64 65 How to find them 73 Setting as plane 75 Drawing on created plane

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Basic Assembly Design 79 80 Entering assembly design mode 84 Product structure tree 85 Bringing parts into your assembly 87 Assembly constraints toolbar 89 Using the compass 91 Constraints in assemblies 86 Offset constraints

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Drafting and Dimensioning 98 100 Entering drafting mode 102 Drawing creation 104 Beginning dimensions 105 Diameters and radiuses 107 Changing dimension lines 109 Adding text 112 Generating quick dimensions

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Drawing With Surfaces 115 117 Starting the surfaces environment 118 Translating 119 Renaming 120 Points and splines 123 Extruding a surface 125 Sweeping a curve 129 Trimming 131 Symmetry 132 Joining surfaces 134 Closing an object

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Drafting Techniques I 136 139 Adding a title block 142 Adding an isometric view 145 Changing hidden lines 147 Section view 148 Adding a detail 151 Adding a clipping 153 Changing hatch patterns

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Drafting Techniques II 155 156 Auxiliary views 159 Changing line properties 161 Changing fonts 164 Finishing your title block

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