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4.6.4 Adding Chamfers to Sketch Fig
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4.6.6 Mirroring Figures �
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4.8.3 Sketch Constraint Inferencing
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4.9 Working in a Sketch
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4.9.7 Right-click Menu 4.9.8 Open a
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4.10 Sketches and the Design Explor
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Reference Geometry 5.1 Reference Pl
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5.1.2 Tangent Plane � 5.1.3 Angle
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5.1.6 Three Point Plane � 5.1.7 P
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5.2.4 Axis through Two Planes � 5
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5.3.4 Point at the Center of Circul
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5.4.2 Positioning Reference Surface
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5.4.5 Extruding to Geometry 5.5 Ref
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6.5 Entering and Exiting 3D Sketch
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6.7.2 Inserting Sketch Nodes from a
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6.9.2 Dimensioning 3D Sketch Figure
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6.11 Other 3D Sketch Functions
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7.3.2 Thin Wall Extrude Boss and Cu
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7.4.2 Thin Wall Revolve Boss and Cu
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7.5 Loft Boss and Loft Cut �
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7.6 Sweep Boss and Sweep Cut �
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7.6.2 Thin Wall Boss Sweep and Cut
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7.7 Helical Boss and Helical Cut
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7.8 Fillet 7.8.1 Constant Radius Fi
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7.9 Chamfers 7.9.1 Edge Chamfers
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7.10 Shells �
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7.12 External Cosmetic Threads �
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7.15 Copying Existing Features 7.15
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7.15.2 Feature Patterns
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7.16 Design Boolean Features
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7.18 Scaling Parts �
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Sheet Metal Feature Creation 8.1 Sh
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8.4 Contour Base Flange �
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8.5 Lofted Flange �
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8.6 Flange �
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8.10 Corner Rounds and Chamfers 8.1
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8.14 Copying Existing Features 8.15
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� 9.2 Modifying a Part 9.2.1 Edit
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9.2.4 Rolling Back Features �
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9.4 Part Display Options � �
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9.6 Part Physical Properties �
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9.8 Project to Sketch
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9.9 Spreadsheet Driven Designs 9.9.
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Design Configurations 10.1 Design C
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10.4 Configurations in Drawings
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Assembly Design 11.1 Assembly Desig
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11.3 Assembly Basics 11.3.1 Opening
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11.3.4 Selecting Parts in the Assem
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11.3.6 Inserting a Duplicate Design
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11.3.10 Moving Parts to Simulate As
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11.3.13 Applying Color Properties t
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11.4.2 Inserting Assembly Constrain
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11.10 Editing and Designing Parts i
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11.12 Joining Parts & Removing Mate
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Drawings 12.1 Drawing Creation 12.1
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12.1.6 Fast Views �
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12.2.2 Renaming Sheets & Views �
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12.2.5 Hiding Views � � 12.2.6
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12.2.8 Updating Drawing Views � 1
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12.2.12 Centerlines and Centermarks
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12.2.13 Optimizing the Drawing Disp
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12.2.16 Reordering Sheets � 12.2.
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12.2.20 Printing a Drawing � �
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12.3.2 Dimensioning Slots and Holes
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12.3.5 Dimension Properties � �
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12.5.3 Saving and Using a Custom Te
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12.5.5 Automatically Filling Title
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12.6 Annotations
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12.6.2 Datums �
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12.6.4 Feature Control Frames
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13.3 BOMs within 2D Drawings 13.3.1
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13.4.7 Sorting Data in Ascending or
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13.4.11 Modifying the BOM View Styl
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Importing and Exporting Data 15.1 I
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16.2 Installing and Enabling Alibre
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16.3.2 Alibre Motion Explorer �
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16.3.4 Motion Settings
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16.4 Overview of Simulating and Pla
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16.6 Simulation Types and Parameter
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16.6.3 Automatic Constraint Mapping
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16.6.10 Deleting Simulations � 16
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17.5 Checking Items In and Out of t
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17.6 Finding Items in the Alibre Va
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17.7 Renaming Files �
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17.11.2 Viewing Version History �
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17.11.4 Rolling Back to Previous Ve
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