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Combining Parts
This Autodesk
®
Mechanical Desktop
®
tutorial builds on
the part and assembly modeling techniques that you
learned in previous chapters. In this chapter, you create
a part and combine toolbodies with it, using parametric
Boolean operations such as cut, join, and intersect, to
construct a single part. You also learn how the display of
complex parts is organized in the Desktop Browser.
In this tutorial, you work in Single Part mode to create a
complex part to be used as a component for an off-road
vehicle. You build the part by combining several
toolbodies with a base part.
Working in Single Part mode
Changing part definitions
Combining and intersecting
parts
Creating toolbody and nested
toolbody parts
Reducing weight parametrically