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As you work to make sure that your CAD models are
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good and you're learning how to check the quality of your own
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work,
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it's really valuable to know that there's
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a tool that can help you,
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and it's called the CAD Checker. And how do you get the CAD checker?
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Well,
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first of all,
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you come up here to the app store,
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and in the app store
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you type in the word "checker"
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and we see what comes up when we do that.
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There is the CAD Checker produced by the people who create Onshape.
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You can just click on this,
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get it downloaded into your Onshape.
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It's free.
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Once you do that,
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you see this little box down here called the CAD Checker.
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And one of the beauties of the CAD Checker
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is that there are two really important evaluations you can do with the self-check.
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You can compare your model properties to a reference.
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So, if I have provided you,
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for example,
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a solution file,
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you can type in the URL,
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not type in,
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you can paste in the URL right there,
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and then it will compare the two models. And I'm comparing my NES that
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I've been using in the videos to the NES that was used for all the drawings.
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And I can see that
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the two models compare beautifully because they're all
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green and it checks out as being
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correct.
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If any one of these were wrong,
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these would show up as red, we'd be able to go in and figure out what we need to work on.
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Now there's another part of the CAD Checker that's valuable
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and let's...
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How do I get out of this?
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Why is that not happening?
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There
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you go.
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I
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can click on the CAD Checker again, and when I click on
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the CAD Checker, I can come here and compare to best practices.
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Super,
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super valuable here,
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especially for
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a couple of things.
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Number one,
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you can look to see which features you're using that's helpful.
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OK,
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you can also look to see if your sketches are well defined or
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as we see right here in sketch number 6,
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under defined.
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We don't want to have any underdefined sketches and
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this goes and checks all of them for us.
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So, now we need to know. Now, we know we can go into sketch 6
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and make a fix.
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Also I know there's two parts in this particular Part Studio.
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And I really like that it's telling me that I've renamed all
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of my parts so that I'm not just having part 1,
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part 2,
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part 3.
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Use the CAD Checker,
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it's helpful,
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especially for seeing if you have any
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underdefined sketches that you need to go pay attention to.
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I suggest not turning in anything,
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in
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your workflow that has underdefined sketches.