Chapter 13
Building Efficient Assemblies
This chapter introduces you to techniques you can use to manage performance issues as well as general-use issues, efficiency, browse-worthiness, and searchability in assemblies.
Understanding the Purpose of Assemblies
In the physical world, assemblies exist for several reasons:
- Separating materials
- Allowing relative motion
- Reducing material
- Allowing for different manufacturing techniques
- Allowing for disassembly or repair
Independent of the reasons stemming from physical-world requirements, CAD assemblies might have some unique reasons for existing:
- Depicting an assembly process such as order of operations
- Specifying dimensional assembly relationships and tolerances...
