- [Instructor] Now that we have parts into our assembly.
It's time to start rotating those parts around
and getting them ready to mate.
So, let me show you the basic navigational tools
inside of a SolidWorks assembly.
Okay, so, if you hold down the middle mouse button
the entire world will rotate around very similar
to the part environment.
If you in and scroll out, it will zoom in, zoom out
just like you'd expect the same
as it the part environment.
If you hold on shift, we can zoom in, zoom out.
If you hold on control, we can pan right and left.
All right, so, those are all things
that came from the part environment.
Now, what if you want to rotate an individual
piece around, right?
We've got all these individual pieces in our assembly
and you probably want to rotate those around.
Well, if you click on the piece itself
with a left mouse button click, you can drag that around.
And it happens to drag around in the plane you're on.
So, if I spin my world around
if I go up this way, it'll just move it directly up.
But if I go and spin the world around this way
I can rotate it, you know, move it right to left, right?
So, depending on which orientation you have the world in
is going to be the plane you're going to move your part around
in as well.
All right, now, if you want to rotate this individual part
you're going to hold down the right mouse button
that will allow me to rotate that part around.
So, right mouse button allows me to rotate
and left mouse button allows me to move it
or pan it right to left.
And also make sure you're looking
at the model in the view orientation
that you'd like to move that part around.
Otherwise you might have a part that's way out
in space when you're expecting us right next to you.
So, sometimes if you want to move something that's normal
to this face here, it's actually a good idea to switch
to its normal and then move part.
So, you know, you're only moving in that plane.
Okay, if you want additional copies of the parts.
So, maybe you have a few
of these little rivet looking parts here
and you want a copy.
There's a couple ways we can do it.
One method is actually selecting the part
from the feature manager over here.
If I just click on the individual parts
they highlight in my graphics window.
So, notice this one here is highlighted.
I have it selected here
so you can hold down control on your keyboard
and you can drag out an additional copy from here.
Or you can just click on the part itself,
hold on control and drag out a secondary copy.
And notice when I make a copy of the part
it keeps the same exact orientation.
If I were to grab this part here
rotated it around to the side
and then create a copy of it by holding on control,
dragging it out.
It's a copy in the exact same orientation.
If you want to copy multiple parts,
we can select multiple parts
by just holding on control, selecting multiple pieces here.
And again, we can do the same thing
by holding on control and copying out individual parts
or operating on them as a whole.
So, you can copy any one of those parts.
You can select groups of parts
and hit delete on your keyboard
if you want to get rid of them.
Say yes to all.
And of course we can bring in more copies
just by holding on control on my keyboard
and just copying them out.
So, there's a whole bunch of things you can do.
Just working in this assembly environment,
bringing in parts rotating them and aligning them,
getting them ready so we can mate them together
in the next few movies.