Chapter 13: Building Efficient Assemblies
Assemblies are more than simply parts and subassemblies put together with mate relationships; several other types of features and placeholders can also exist in the assembly FeatureManager. Organizing assembly components is fairly straightforward and can offer benefits for finding parts as well as controlling suppression and display states globally.
The assembly FeatureManager contains several options for the data to display for subassemblies, parts, configurations, metadata, and features within. Remember that all the data that you include in your SolidWorks documents can be accessed and reused later, so it's worth the effort to name it properly. Descriptions can be very important, both at the part level and also for features and configs.
- Master It Use SolidWorks Treehouse to establish the framework for a simple product with two layers of subassemblies. Add some custom properties to the documents that you might want to use to fill...
