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Building a Basic Multibody Part

In this lesson, you learn how to build a sample multibody part that has overlapping bodies that are not merged. This part is used in the Body Intersection lesson.

If you know how to create multibody parts with overlapping bodies that are not merged, you can proceed directly to the Body Intersection Lesson.

The steps include creating:

A thin-extrude U-bracket
An extruded solid
A second body in a part file

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