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In-context features

In-context features

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to go ahead and start creating an assembly, and then we're going to make in-context features to relate the two together. So I'm going to start with this base piece here, and I'm going to right-click on it, and then click on Make Assembly from Part. I'm going to use the Lynda Assembly, and go ahead and start that up. Choose that part right there, and click OK. Now I have an assembly set up here. I'm going to click on Tile Horizontally, and I'm going to drag this part here into my assembly. And once I have that, I'm going to go ahead and open it up. I'm going to basically just put this piece directly over the other piece and then create an assembly. So I'll click on Mate. I'm going to choose the outside of this circle here with the outside of that one there, click OK, and then we're going to click on the top surface here and the bottom surface there, and bring those together. Now what I want is this circle here, this cylinder here, to be the…

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