Understanding and utilizing the Interference Detection and Collision Detection tools

By now, we know that most of the products we deal with in our everyday life consist of more than one part. This is the case regardless of whether we are looking at a simple pen or a complex engine. As SOLIDWORKS professionals, we will require more tools than just mates to help us to evaluate our assembly. In this section, we will cover the Interference Detection and Collision Detection tools. We will cover what they are and how to use them in SOLIDWORKS assemblies. Throughout this section, we will be working with the assembly we linked with this chapter.

Interference Detection

Within an assembly, we might end up having different parts interfering with each other, meaning there might be one part inside another. This could happen because of a deficiency in our design or because it was intentional. Regardless, SOLIDWORKS assembly provides us with the Interference Detection tool to determine how...