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CHAPTER - 1

DASSAULT SYSTEMES

1.1 Introduction
Dassault Systems, "The 3DEXPERIENCE Company", is a French multinational software
company that develops 3D design, 3D digital mock-up, and product lifecycle management
(PLM) software. Bernard Charle’s is the Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer. Dassault
Systems develops and markets PLM software and services that support industrial processes by
providing a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance.

Dassault Systems customers are companies in the following industries: Aerospace & Défense,
Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Consumer goods - distribution, FMCG -
Distribution, Energy, and processes, Finance and Corporate Services, High Technology,
Industrial Equipment, Life Sciences, Marine & Offshore, Natural Resources, and Transport &
mobility. Dassault Systems has three sites as headquarters: one in Europe (Vélizy Villacoublay,
France), one in North America (Waltham, Massachusetts), and one in Asia (Shanghai, China).
Passion for Innovation is a corporate initiative which aims at harnessing Dassault Systems'
technology for developing research, education, culture and arts.

1.2 Vision
Dassault Systems, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides businesses and people with
virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its 3DEXPERIENCE Platform leverages
the Company’s world-leading 3D software applications to transform the way products are
designed, produced, and supported, enabling businesses to craft delightful customer
experiences. With the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, our customers create “social enterprises”
that involve their customers in the innovation process. With its online architecture, the
3DEXPERIENCE environment helps businesses to test and evaluate — anywhere in the
development lifecycle of a product or service — the eventual experience they will deliver to
their customers. In short, 3DEXPERIENCE powers the next-generation capabilities that drive
today’s Experience Economy.

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1.3 History
Dassault Systems is a subsidiary of the Dassault Group created in 1981 by Avions
Marcel Dassault to develop a new generation of computer-aided design(CAD) software called
CATIA. Dassault Systems moved its corporate headquarters from Suresnes to Vélizy-
Villacoublay in November 2008. This new European headquarters, located in the south-western
suburbs of Paris, is commonly called 3DS Paris Campus. Another campus was established in
2011 in Waltham, Massachusetts, west of Boston (United States) and is called 3DS Boston
Campus. Dassault Systems was a signatory to the French Small-Medium Enterprise business
development Pact (SME Pact) in May 2008. Dassault Systems was incorporated in 1981 but in
fact started in 1977 with 15 engineers from Avions Marcel Dassault - led by Francis Bernard,
aircraft design engineer - who were in charge of providing support for the aircraft building
process. Dassault was one of the major clients of IBM in France; an agreement was negotiated
for IBM to sell CATIA. Over the years, Dassault Systems improved its software and expanded
to the US, Japan and Germany. This rapid growth triggered a chain of products, acquisitions,
and partnerships beyond the company's core 3D CAD/CAM software and led to what is known
today as Dassault Systems.

1.4 Products
• CATIA - The world's leading brand for product design and experience, was Dassault
Système's initial product. It is the PLM solution for 3D collaborative creation
• SolidWorks - SolidWorks products span 3D mechanical design software, simulation,
product data management, and collaboration. They are used by companies in the
machinery, medical, consumer, tool and die, electrical and power sectors, and by
suppliers to the aerospace and automotive industries.
• DELMIA - DELMIA is the Company's PLM digital manufacturing software. It allows
manufacturers to virtually define, plan, create, monitor and control all production
processes, from the early process planning and assembly simulation to a complete
definition of the production facility and equipment.
• ENOVIA - ENOVIA provides a framework for collaboration for Company's PLM
software. It is an online environment that involves creators, collaborators and
consumers in the product lifecycle.
• SIMULIA - SIMULIA automates standard simulation processes and can be deployed
across any organization, distributing workload across the computing resources, and
managing the simulation results to improve collaborative decision making.

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• 3DVIA – It is a suite of products designed to help individuals across the enterprise to

search, navigate and collaborate in 3D in real-time over the Internet. It enables users to
deliver assembly procedures, technical illustrations, and marketing materials using 3D
images and other 3D data that remain compatible with other products.

• EXALEAD – It is an infrastructure for search engines with search-oriented applications

and Internet. Exalead is a global provider of information access software for the
enterprise and the Web.
• NETVIBES – It provides intelligent dashboards to monitor and manage Web
information in real-time.
• GEOVIA - It delivers solutions to model and simulate the planet, primarily to support
mining.
• 3DSWYM - It is a social platform to share internal and external information.

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CHAPTER - 2

SOLIDWORKS

2.1 Introduction
SolidWorks is a solid modelling computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided
engineering(CAE) computer program that runs on Microsoft Windows. SolidWorks is
published by Dassault Systems. More than 3,246,750 product designers and engineers
worldwide, representing 240,010 organizations, use SOLIDWORKS to bring their designs to
life–from the coolest gadgets to innovations that deliver a better tomorrow. Dassault Systems
SOLIDWORKS Corp. offers complete 3D software tools that let you create, simulate, publish,
and manage your data. SOLIDWORKS products are easy to learn and use and work together to
help you design products better, faster, and more cost-effectively. The SOLIDWORKS focus
on ease-of-use allows more engineers, designers and other technology professionals than ever
before to take advantage of 3D in bringing their designs to life. It is headquartered at Waltham,
Massachusetts, USA. The latest version of SolidWorks was released on 19 th September, 2016
as SolidWorks 2017. SolidWorks partners with third party developers to add functionality in
niche market applications like finite element analysis, circuit layout, tolerance checking, etc.
SolidWorks has also licensed its 3D modelling capabilities to other CAD software vendors,

notably ANVIL.

2.2 History
SolidWorks Corporation was founded in December 1993 by Massachusetts Institute of
Technology graduate Jon Hirschtick. Hirschtick used $1 million he had made while a member
of the MIT Blackjack Team to set up the company. Initially based in Waltham, Massachusetts,
United States, Hirschtick recruited a team of engineers with the goal of building 3D CAD
software that was easy-to-use, affordable, and available on the Windows desktop. Operating
later from Concord, Massachusetts, SolidWorks released its first product SolidWorks 95, in
November 1995. In 1997 Dassault, best known for its CATIA CAD software, acquired
SolidWorks for $310 million in stock. [5] Jon Hirschtick stayed on board for the next 14 years in
various roles. Under his leadership, SolidWorks grew to a $100 million revenue company.
SolidWorks currently markets several versions of the SolidWorks CAD software in addition to

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drawings, a collaboration tool, and DraftSight, a 2D CAD product. SolidWorks was headed by
John McEleney from 2001 to July 2007 and Jeff Ray from 2007 to January 2011. The current
CEO is Gian Paolo Bassi from Jan 2015. Gian Paolo Bassi replaces Bertrand Sicot, who is
promoted Vice President Sales of Dassault Systems’ Value Solutions sales channel.

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CHAPTER - 3

THE SOLIDWORKS MODEL

The SolidWorks model is made up of:

 Parts - 2D design (Sketch), 3D design (Features) , Part design consider in the part design
section.
 Assemblies - Assembling of two or more than two parts consider in this section.
 Drawings - Designing with standards is consider in the drawing section.

3.1 SolidWorks User Interface

The interface is native Windows interface, and such behaves in the same manner as other
Windows applications.

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 Menus:
1. It provides access to all commands that the Solid Works offers.

2. When a menu item has a right pointing arrow, it means there is a sub-menu
associated with the choice,
3. When a menu item is followed by a series of dots, it means that option opens a
dialog box with additional choices or information

 Toolbars menus:
1. Provide shortcuts enabling to quickly access the most
frequently used commands.
2. They are organized according to function and can be customized, removed and
rearranged according to your preferences.

 Feature Manager Design Tree:

1. It is located on the left side of the Solid Works Graphic window.
2. It displays the details chronological sequence on how all the parts, assembly and
drawing are created.
3. It allows access to do editing of the models.
It consists of three default tabs:
1. Feature Manager Design tree
2. Property Manager

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3. Configuration Manager
 The Feature Manager Design tree makes it easy to:
1. Select items in the model by name.

2. Identify and change the order in which features are created. You can drag items in
the Feature Manager Design tree list to reorder them. This changes the order in
which features are regenerated when the model is rebuilt.
3. Display the dimensions of a feature by double-clicking the feature’s name.

4. Rename items by slowly clicking two times on a name to select it and then entering a
new name.
5. Suppress and Unsuppressed part features and assembly components.

The Property Manager appears on the Property Manager tab in the panel to the left of the
graphics area. It opens when you select entities or commands defined in the Property Manager.

 The View Toolbar

The View toolbar provides tools for manipulating Solid Works parts, drawings, and assemblies.

Icon Description

Zoom to Fit - Rescales the view so the entire part, drawing, or assembly is visible.
Zoom to area - Zooms in on a portion of the view that you select by creating a
bounding box.
1. Place the cursor where you want the one corner of the box to be.

2. Drag the cursor diagonally to the opposite corner of the bounding box.

3. Release the cursor. The image enlarges proportionally to the size of the bounding box.
4. To resize the image back to fit the screen, select Zoom to Fit.

Zoom In/ Out - Dynamically changes the scale of the image.

• To enlarge the image, Press the left mouse button and drag upward.
• To reduce the image: Press the left mouse button and drag downward.
Rotate View - Dynamically turns the part or assembly image around a view centre
as you move the mouse. (Not for drawings.)
• To rotate the image on a vertical axis: Move the mouse left to right

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• To rotate the image on a horizontal axis: Move the mouse up and down.
• To rotate the image diagonally: Move the mouse diagonally. You can also use the
keyboard arrow keys to rotate the image.

Pan - Dynamically moves the image. Press and hold the left mouse button while moving the
cursor around on the screen.
Hidden - Displays only those lines that are visible at the angle the model is Lines
rotated. Obscured lines are removed
Perspective - Displays a perspective view of the model. A perspective view is the
most normal view as seen by the eye or a camera. Parallel lines recede into the distance to a
vanishing point. Perspective may be used in combination with any of the view modes.

3.2. 2d Sketching
 Sketching: Sketching is the act of creating 2-dimensional profile comprised of wire
frame geometry. Sketches are used for all sketched feature in Solid Works including:
• Extrusions

• Sweeps

• Revolves

• Lofts

Process of completing the sketches

1. Starting a New part (It can be created in inch, millimetre or other units)

2. Sketches (Collections of 2D geometry that are used to create solid features)

3. Sketch Entities/Geometry (Types of 2D geometry such as lines, circles and

rectangles that make up the sketch)
4. Sketch Relations (Geometric relationships such as horizontal and vertical are
applied to the sketch entities. The relations restrict the movement of the entities)
5. State of the sketch (Each sketch has a status that determines whether it is ready
to be used or not. The state can fully-, under- or over defined)
6. Sketch tools (Tools can be used to modify the sketch geometry that has been
created/ this often involves the trimming or extension of the entities)
7. Extruding the sketch (Extruding uses the 2D sketch to create a 3D solid
feature)

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 Sketch Entities/Geometry:

Solid Works offers a rich variety of sketch tools for creating profile geometry.

Sketch entity Toolbar button Geometry example

Line

Circle

Center point Arc

3 Point Arc

Tangent Arc

Ellipse

Partial Ellipse

Parabola

Spline

Polygon

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Rectangle

Parallelogram

Point

Centreline

3.3 Status of A Sketch

The most common colour codes are:

No. Colour Diagnostic __ Case____________

1. Blue Under constrained

› This is usually appears when first drawn.

› Additional dimensions or relations are required.

› Under defined sketch entities are blue (by default).

2. Black Fully constrained

› When more constraints and dimensions are added to the sketch – the sketch Become
completely defined.

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› No additional dimensions or relationships are required.

3. Red Over constrained

› Adding any dimension to fully defined Would serve to over define the sketch ›
Contains conflicting dimensions or relations, or both.

3.4 Sketch Relations

The following table describes the entities that you can select for a relation and the
characteristics of the resulting relation.

Relation Entities to select Resulting relations

Horizontal One or more lines the lines become horizontal or vertical as defined
or Vertical or two or more by the current sketch space. Point aligned
points. horizontal or vertically.

Collinear Two or more lines The items lie on the same infinite line.

Cordial Two or more arcs The item share the same center point and radius

Perpendicular Two lines The two items are perpendicular to each other.

Parallel Two or more lines The items are parallel to each other. A line and
a plane (or The line is parallel to the
selected plane. a planar face) in a 3D Sketch

Tangent An arc, ellipse, or The two items remain tangent. spline, and a
line or arc.

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Concentric Two or more arcs The arcs share the same center point.
point and an arc.

Midpoint Two lines or a The point remains at the midpoint of

point the line.

Intersection Two lines and one The point remains at the intersection
point of the lines.

Coincident A point and a line, The point lies on the line, arc, or ellipse.
arc, or ellipse.

Equal Two or more lines The line lengths or radii remain equal.
or two or more
arcs.

Symmetric A centerline and The items remain equidistant from the

points, lines, arcs, centerline on a line perpendicular to the
or ellipses. centerline.

Fix Any entity. The entity’s size and location are fixed. However,
the end points of a fixed line are free to move
along the infinite line that underlies it. Also, the
endpoints of an arc or elliptical segment are free
to move along the underlying full circle or ellipse.

Merge Points Two sketch points The two points are merged into a single
or endpoints. point.

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The line is in The line is in The lines are in horizontal

Horizontal vertical

A line may be constrained vertically or horizontally. Once the line is drawn horizontally, it will
remain horizontal unless the relation is removed. The line can be repositioned and resized but
must remain horizontal.

The Sketch Tools toolbar and the Tools, Sketch Tools menu provide the following tools:

Convert Entities creates one or more curves in a sketch by projecting an edge, loop, face,
external sketch curve, external sketch contour, set of edges, or set of external sketch curves
onto the sketch plane. (Available in an active part or assembly document only).

Mirror creates copies of sketch elements by are mirroring them around a centerline. When you
create mirrored elements, a symmetric relation is applied between corresponding pairs of
sketch points (the ends of mirrored lines, the centers of arcs, and so on). If you change a
mirrored element, its mirror image also changes.

Fillet creates a tangent arc at the intersection of two sketch elements, trimming away the
corner.

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Offset Entities creates sketch curves offset from a selected model edge, loop, face, external
sketch curve, external sketch contour, set of edges, or set of external sketch curves by a
specified distance. An offset entity relation is created between each original entity and the
corresponding sketch curve. If the entity changes, when you rebuild the model the offset curve
also changes. (Available in an active part or assembly document only).

Trim/Extend trims or extends a sketch element.

3.5 View Orientation

It helps to Change the view display to correspond to one of the standard view orientations.

To select a view, do one of the following:

• Click View Orientation (Heads-up View toolbar), and select a view orientation.

• Click a view orientation on the Standard Views toolbar.

• Double-click a view orientation in the Orientation dialog box.

Front

Right

Bottom

Isometric

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Top

Left

Back

Normal To (selected plane or planar face)

3.6 View Display Style

You can display drawing views in the following modes, from either the View toolbar or in the
view Property Manager:

Wireframe

Hidden Lines Visible

Hidden Lines Removed

Shaded With Edges

Shaded

Wireframe Hidden Lines Visible Hidden Lines Removed

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3.7 Creating Features

Features are the individual shapes that, when combined, make up the part. You can also
add some types of features to assemblies. Some features originate as sketches; other features,
such as shells or fillets, are created when you select the appropriate menu command and define
the dimensions or characteristics that you want. This chapter describes the following:
• Base, Boss, and Cut

• Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, and Loft

• Fillet/Round, Chamfer, and Draft

• Hole - Simple and Hole Wizard

• Shell

• Rib
• Dome

• Pattern - Circular, Linear, and Mirror

• Curve

• Surface

 Extrude:

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Extrude extends the sketched profile of a feature in one or two directions as either a thin
feature or a solid feature. An extrude operation can either add material to a part (in a base or
boss) or remove material from a part (in a cut or hole).

SOLID FEATURE THIN FEATURE

 Cut:

A cut is a feature which removes material from a part or an

assembly.

A cut may be created by Extrude, Sweep, Revolve, or

Loft (from one or more sketches), or Thicken or cut With
Surface (from a surface).

 Fillet/Round:

Fillet/Round creates a rounded internal or external face on the part. You can fillet all edges of a
face, selected sets of faces, selected edges, or edge loops.
In general, it is best to follow these rules when making fillets:

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• Add larger fillets before smaller ones. When several fillets converge at a vertex, create
the larger fillets first.
• Add drafts before fillets. If you are creating a molded or cast part with many filleted
edges and drafted surfaces, in most cases you should add the draft features before the
fillets.
• Save cosmetic fillets for last. Try to add cosmetic fillets after most other geometry is in
place. If you add them earlier, it takes longer to rebuild the part.
• To enable a part to rebuild more rapidly, use a single Fillet operation to treat several
edges that require equal radius fillets. Be aware however, that when you change the
radius of that fillet, all the fillets created in the same operation change.

 Chamfer:

Chamfer creates a beveled edge on the selected edges and/or faces.

 Draft:

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Draft tapers faces using a specified angle to selected faces in the model, to make a molded part
easier to remove from the mold. You can insert a draft in an existing part or draft while
extruding a feature.
You can draft using either a neutral plane or a parting line.

 Hole:

Hole creates various types of hole features in the model. You place a hole on a planar face, then
specify its location by dimensioning it afterwards.
• Simple - Places a circular hole of the depth you specify.

• Wizard - Creates holes with complex profiles, such as Counter bore or

Countersunk.
In general, it is best to create holes near the end of the design process. This helps you avoid
inadvertently adding material inside an existing hole.

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 Dome:

You can add a dome feature to any model face that has a circular, elliptical, or foursided
boundary. A four-sided boundary need not be rectangular, and each side may consist of a single
segment or a set of tangent segments.

3.8 Mirror Feature:

Mirror Feature creates a copy of a feature (or features), mirrored about a plane. You can
either use an existing plane or create a new one. If you modify the original feature, the
mirrored copy is updated to reflect the changes.

 Revolved features:

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Revolved Boss/Base – material added by rotating the profiles about a centerline Revolved Cut
– material removed by rotating the sketch

The Revolve parameters box provides the ability to select:

HOLLOW CYLINDER SOLID CYLINDER

 Swept:

Swept Boss/Base – material added by sweeping a profile along the path Cut
Sweep – material removed by sweeping a profile along the path

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Follow path – the section the remains Keep Normal Constant – the
at the same angle with respect to section remains parallel to the.
the path at all times. beginning section at all times.

 Lofted:

Loft creates a feature by making transitions between profiles. A loft can be a base, boss, cut,
or surface. You create a loft using two or more profiles. Only the first, last, or first and last
profiles can be points. All sketch entities, including guide curves and profiles, can be
contained in a single 3D sketch.

 Rib:

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Rib is a special type of extruded feature created from open or closed sketched contours. It adds
material of a specified thickness in a specified direction between the contour and an existing
part. You can create a rib using single or multiple sketches.

1. Sketch L shape and extrude the sketch.

2. Sketch a Line to use as the rib feature on a plane.

3. Click Rib on the Features toolbar, or click Insert, Features, Rib.

4. Click OK

 Shell:

Shell tool hollows out a part, leaves open the faces you select, and creates thin walled features
on the remaining faces. If you do not select any face on the model, you can shell a solid part,
creating a closed, hollow model. You can also shell a model using multiple thicknesses.

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3.9 Some Drawings

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3.10 Assembly Modelling

 Stages in the process:
i. Creating a new assembly
New assemblies are created using the same method as new parts

ii. Adding the first component

Components can be added in several ways. They can be dragged and dropped from an open
part window or opened from standard browser.

iii. Position of the first component

The initial component added to the assembly is automatically fixed as it is added.

Others components can be positioned after they are added.

iv. Mating components to each other

• Mates are used to position and orient components with reference to each other. Mates
remove degrees of freedom from the components.

v. Sub assemblies

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• Assemblies can be created and inserted into the current assembly. They are considered
sub-assembly components

 Assembly toolbars:

• Insert components

• Hide/show components

• Change suppression state

• Edit component

• No external references

• Mate

• Move component

• Smart fasteners
• Exploded view

• Explode line sketch

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• Interference detection

• Simulation
 Basic assembly mates:

• Coincident – place two flat surfaces in the same Plane

• Parallel – define two flat surfaces as parallel
• Perpendicular – define two lines or planes as perpendicular to one another
• Tangent – defines a cylindrical feature as tangent to a line or plane
• Concentric – align the centerlines of two cylindrical features
• Distance – make two surfaces parallel, with a specified distance between them
• Angle – two lines or planes at a preset angle to one another

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Some Assembly Drawings

Screw Jack

Plummer Block

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CHAPTER - 4

CONCLUSION
This report covered the preview of our learning path and study materials. The use of
SolidWorks has many advantages. It can help to reduce the time it takes to produce the drawing

needed in the work environment.

SolidWorks software is the most amazing range of mechanical computer aided design tool. It is
now considered to be the best according to industry standards that can be obtained for a wide
array of designing, Mechanical Engineering Services and other industrial purposes.

This software is utilized to provide some useful and practical designing software that will
allow users to visualize as well as create prototypes of a product in reality and quick time.
SolidWorks software allows developers to give form to them out of the box ideas. However,
this requires in-depth knowledge and understanding of the entire software and its basic as well
as important features.

We explored different materials ranging from text, tutorials and YouTube videos so as get to
grips with the finer details of mastering SolidWorks. We were guided by the fact that there is
more to learning SolidWorks than drawing simple figures and lines. It has very vast application
in the field of manufacturing, architecture, electrical, and many more. The company Dassault
systems provide wide range of application and software which reduces the effort to create
complex drawing and easy to maintain. With the help of SolidWorks, we can create design
very quickly. It improves the quality of the drawing which we can’t get by hand drafting. With
the help of this software, drawing can be easily modified whenever wanted which reduces the
human effort. We can easily transfer files from one place to another in no time which reduces

the time.

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