what's up rata here this is the second part of the SolidWorks for absolute
beginner series and in this video I'm going to walk you through how
to attach all the Lego train parts together to form what we call an assembly so by the
end of the video you have something that looks like this and does this
hey I'm Raja I've been using Sawyer's profession for over 10 years and I like to three model things
with the intent of being manufactured for me Korean assemblies there's two purposes
in SolidWorks one to represent the entire 3d model if it was made of two or more components
and second to show where each component lives now if you'd like to follow along or want the files
used in this tutorial for reference head on over to ratha so to accomplish download to get your
project files now with that out of way let's get into it now that we model our seven unique
parts we actually want to create an assembly and it's gonna look something like this what
we want is is to put it together like a puzzle and we also are going to make and explode of
you something like this so you can see how all the individual pieces are go together so to do
that let's create a new assembly go to advanced hit assembly okay and then the first component
we're gonna do is go to browse we're gonna use the main body train as our first component hit
okay instead of selecting somewhere just hit the okay here that's automatic gonna bring
it into the assembly file and lock it into position so this is going to be where it's
gonna live permanently if you turn on our you can see if we turn on our planes you can see it lives
there okay just turn those planes off hit F to zoom in and now we're going to insert our cap
and instead of hitting okay here we're gonna actually like that somewhere on the workspace
and we're going to constrain it so to do that hit mate let's make sure that this made here
sits flush with this top face here okay and now that's fixed on that face we want to make sure
that this face is fixed on this face so sit mate hit this a face and hit this back face
hit okay and now we want to make sure that this is in the center go to advanced mates
put a whip and then you're gonna select this face this face then this face and then this
face that's gonna Center that guy for us so it should be now fixed perfect now we're gonna
install the cap let's go to insert component browse and let's just make this a little bit
bigger so we can see so the cab is that piece there hit okay and let's just click somewhere
in the workspace same thing it mates just like this bottom face just like this top
face hit okay select this top face or this back face hit okay his face okay
instead of inserting another component we're just gonna marry it sameer component and our mirror
plane is going to be hit this drop down menu it's gonna be the right and the component is gonna be
the cab hit over okay let's finish that off by adding the top part of the cab frame so insert
component set insert component and grabbing up new part let's just hover over on the tree and
hit a cab train and hit control-c and then select somewhere on the window hit ctrl-v we'll just copy
and paste another part so we're gonna constrain that squamates just like that phase that phase
this phase this phase this this phase and you can see it's going into the surface and I'm like
trying to select this face and then the top phase pull it back hit the mate just like that face just
like that face and there it is now let's insert the smoke box insert component browse smoke box
just drop it somewhere there let's do the mate hit that face that face this face this face this
face and this face cool we're going to the same thing we're gonna copy that component
take ctrl-c ctrl-v coffees it for us and we can just define that piece as well it mate select
this face forward slip this face just like that face and we need to constrain to the top body
and that face so there you go it's starting to look like a train now let's add our dome
in our chimney so good insert component browse chimney just to grab it somewhere and so hit me
grab this inner circle and grab this and that grass that makes it quints Cohen centric now
we got to define the why hit that face hit that okay so we're gonna do the same thing with the
dome so it looks like uh somewhere it mate like that inner circle that circle this face
and this face so what's left now is to insert our wheels so do that insert browse wheels that
meet grab that crap that scrap this face and then this face okay hit f2 swim back into that
workspace okay now we want to rinse and repeat we can do it this way you just keep adding each
component or we can just be a little bit more clever and we can go insert to the drop-down
menu copy with mates select the component you want to copy hit okay and then now we can just select
the first concentric mate and then we can select the coincident okay boom it pops it in for us good
okay and then now we can do the same thing hit that guy at this phase okay we're good and now
we can exit out and now all we have to do now is just smear the components so hit mirror midplane
is gonna be the right again all right now we just select three bodies or the three wills hit okay
and there you guys have it the assembly is all done now let's make an exploded view so let's
hover over to the configure manager just like the right click default hit new exploded and we're
gonna just grab the three wills and you can grab these arrows and pull it out this direction okay
we're going to grab the other three wheels put out the other direction and then we're gonna grab the
chimney and the frame and the dome and we just pull it up same thing with and then we're gonna
do the same thing with the the cab we can just grab the cab pull it up and then we just grab it
please and then just pull it back and then just grab this frame pull it up hit ctrl z I didn't
want that just one it's clear that the precious wanted to grab the bottom frame here and smoke
boxes and go up and now we're done we're okay and what we we can see that this is our exploded view
and we want to add some trail lines to kind of connect the dots have so many one like put this
back together pretty simple just right-click the exploded view add some more exploded lines and it
automatically propagates that for you and there it is so one cool thing about this exploded view
as you can if you want to go back and collapse I just go over to the explode hey collapse and
do that or if you want to explode it hit explode or if you want to do an animation and set it off
to some way to see how everything goes in you can do that and save it out and you can animate
the collapse so either one in there you guys have it this is the Assembly of the Lego train give it
a try I hope you learn something new to watch the next part of the beginner series I'll leave a link
somewhere up here anyways I hope this video was helpful if it was do me a favor and give it a like
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