When you dissolve a subassembly, or reorganize the components at any level, the mates and any features that reference the selected components are affected. Therefore, decisions about hierarchical groupings should be made early in development of a complex assembly, in order to minimize the effects on these items.
| Mates move to the Mates folder of the lowest common parent. |
For example, assume that there is a mate between P1 and P2, in the Mates folder of the nested subassembly S3.
- If you move P1 up one level (into S1), the mate moves to the Mates folder of S1, the lowest common parent on the same branch.
- If you move P1 into S2 (a different branch), the mate moves to the Mates folder of the top-level assembly A, because A is the only common parent.
- If you dissolve S3, the mate moves to the Mates folder of subassembly S1.
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| Component patterns have specific limitations. |
- If you move the seed component of a pattern into a different assembly, the pattern feature and all the instances generated by the pattern are deleted.
- If you dissolve a subassembly that has a component pattern, the pattern feature and pattern instances are deleted. The seed component becomes a component of the assembly at the next higher level.
- You cannot move individual instances generated by the pattern.
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| Assembly feature cuts and holes are deleted. |
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| Equations may not be solved. |
This is because, in many cases, the instance number suffix <n> of the components changes when you reorganize or dissolve an assembly. This is done automatically, to prevent conflicts with existing components in the destination assembly. |
| The reorganized component is removed from any explode steps where it appears. |
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| Routing subassemblies are subject to some special rules. |
See SolidWorks Routing Help for more information. |