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Creating New Parts
Before you build the subassembly, you create a pulley plate part. First, you
open a part file containing a constrained profile. Because you can have more
than one drawing open at a time in Mechanical Desktop, you do not need to
close your assembly file. In the part file, you add thickness to the profile and
create additional features so that you can use it as a subassembly in your
assembly.
Open the file ppulley.dwg.
NOTE Back up the tutorial drawing files so you still have the original files if you
make a mistake. See Backing up Tutorial Drawing Files on page 40.
The sketch of the pulley plate has already been profiled and constrained, so
you only need to extrude it. Extrusion adds thickness to a constrained profile.