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Arrange, copy, move, and rotate parts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS
Arrange, copy, move, and rotate parts
- [Instructor] For this video, we're going to be focusing on arranging, copying, moving, and rotating our parts and getting them ready to be mated together. Notice right here on the screen, I've got multiple parts and if I click on the part itself, I can move it right to left or up and down. And if you right click on it, I can rotate it around. So I want to get these parts rotate around a little bit, and I've already covered this a little bit, but I want to show it to you a little bit more so I'll move this over here. I want to rotate this around and get it roughly where I want. Now if I hold on my middle mouse button, that's going to allow me to move the entire world environment around. So middle mouse will move the world, whereas right click on an item and just rotate or move that item. Left click on an item to move it around. That's our main navigation. Now I also have the ability to copy items. If I hold down…
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