The design tree

The design tree details everything that goes into creating your parts. The following screenshot shows the design tree for the part we explored in this chapter. We can simplify the design tree by splitting it into four parts:

The four parts of the design tree are as follows:

  • Commands: These are the commands that are used to build the model. This includes sketches, features, and any other supporting commands that were added during the modeling phase (since we are building a 3D model). In the preceding screenshot, two features were used to create the model, as indicated by Commands. The first is Boss-Extrude1 and the second is ...

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