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Creating a coordinate system

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Creating a coordinate system

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- [Instructor] Each SolidWorks part has a origin, as well as a default coordinate system. Notice down here is a triad, and we have an X, a Y, and a Z direction, and over here is our origin. Now, notice that origin happens to be just randomly in the middle of my part. So sometimes you might want to actually create your own coordinate system where you'd like. This is especially useful if you're trying to figure out like a moment of inertia of the part, or you want to weigh it, or find the center of mass and you want to use that default coordinate system to define where that is. It's also helpful if you ever get into CNC machining, you can define where that work offset's going to be by establishing a new coordinate system. So, I want to point out here, if I go up to Evaluate, I can come over here to Mass Properties, it's using the center of mass over here, and it's using all these values, the center of mass, from that default…

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