Chapter 21
Editing, Evaluating, and Troubleshooting Assemblies
This chapter goes through the essential tools you need to get real-world work done—and do it in a way that shows you understand what you are doing. Editing, evaluating, and troubleshooting skills are tools that will help you deal with the reality of working with SolidWorks assemblies. These tasks can be dauntingly tedious unless you have a working knowledge of the available tools.
Working with Mates
When you think of editing in assemblies, the main task that comes to mind is editing mates—and probably editing broken mates. Although you can do several other kinds of editing in assemblies—such as changing subassembly structure, replacing components, and managing files—mates really are the biggest item you face when you are talking about editing assemblies.
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