The document discusses various steps involved in part creation in SolidWorks including: 1) Creating a base sketch with linked dimensions and specifying material properties. 2) Creating sketches and adding relations before dimensions for extrude features. 3) Adding extrude features and checking equations and linked values. 4) Modifying values by rebuilding the model and handling error messages when removing features.

1. Part Creation in SolidWorks
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2. Creating the Base Sketch with Linked Values and Material Specified
Note: Linking the Dimensions creates a Spread Sheet for making easy changes
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Back Click Material and Select Edit Materials
Select the Dimension twice and Select Linked Values
Click Options – for selecting Units

3. Creating the sketch for the Extrude Thin Feature
Add Relations (equal, parallel, etc.) before adding Dimension
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Equal relationship was added to these two lines

4. Select No to Closed Sketch on Extrude Thin Features
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5. Adding the Extrude Thin Feature
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Note: Linked Values are under Equations in the history tree

6. Adding Cylinder 1 and Checking Equations and Linked Values
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By touching the existing plane or surface
with the insert plane command you can
create another plane and offset the distance.

7. Adding Cylinder 2 and Checking the Mass Properties
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8. Adding Boss and Counterbore Features to the Base
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9. Adding Pocket Cut on the Base and Chamfer to Cylinders
First -Sketch Geometry then Secondly -Apply Feature
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Sketch First
Then Add Feature

10. Modifying Values
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Under Annotation in the History Tree Select View Dimensions
Click the Rebuild Icon to update your model

11. Reference Drawing for Part Modifications
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12. Part Changes: Removed Boss & Handling Error Messages
Suppress items before Deleting them.
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Error comes from removing the
Boss where two of the six fillets
where attached. Deleting the
fillets will correct the problem.

13. Added New Pocket Cut (Removed Boss Feature)
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14. Created New Plane and Converted Entities for Cylinder Cut
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15. Offset Sketch Entities and Trim Unwanted Sketch
Geometry
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16. Created New Extruded Cut in Cylinder
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17. Using the Roll Back Option to Create a New Pocket Cut in the
Rear
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Moved the Tree line to roll back operations

18. Used Offset (Arc) to create New Pocket Cut
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19. Added Fillets to Extruded Cut Feature to Create New Pocket Cut
in Roll Back Mode
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20. New Pocket Cut
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