Chapter 21: Editing, Evaluating, and Troubleshooting Assemblies
You might create your work once in SolidWorks, but you are almost guaranteed to spend more time editing it than you did creating it. Because of that, you need to be even more adept at editing and evaluating your SolidWorks assembly than you are at creating it. SolidWorks has lots of tools to help you do this.
- Master It File management is one skill that doesn't relate to engineering or design, but all CAD operators must be experts. Mismanaging the file can mean you lose a lot of work—or worse yet, by mismanaging, you can create problems with the work that you don't realize until it's too late.
As an exercise, use the SolidWorks Pack And Go to make a zipped copy of an assembly that has in-context references. If possible, take the zip file to another computer with SolidWorks on it and open it up. Check to make sure all of the in-context references are still in-context (and not out of context).
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