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Adding assemblies to drawings

Adding assemblies to drawings

- In this chapter, we're going to be creating assembly drawings. So the first thing we're going to do is create a bill of materials as well as some balloons, and then add some drawing notes and relate how the components are put together and any other information that's required for building that assembly. Let's go ahead and jump on in. Once we have an assembly inside of SolidWorks, the next logical step is to create a drawing of that assembly and detail out which parts are what, create a bill of materials and label and define all of the features and the components that happen to be in that assembly. So to get started, I want to show you which assembly I have open up right here. So I'm going to click on open and head over here to the desktop, which is under exercise files. I'm in chapter 18, 18_01, and I have this example assembly opened up. And the very first file you see in there called SW2020-A1 is the one I have opened up, and that's what we're going to be working with in this…

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