- Bills of Materials in Assembly Documents
You can create bills of materials (BOMs) in assembly files.
- Adding Future Version Files as Components in an Assembly
In SolidWorks 2013 or later, you can use parts and assemblies from the current release of the SolidWorks software as components of an assembly in Service Pack 5 of the previous release.
- Joined Parts
- Assembly Envelopes
An assembly envelope is a special type of assembly component. Envelopes have two main functions. You can use envelopes as reference components and as selection tools.
- Assembly Features
While in an assembly, you can create features that exist in the assembly only. You determine which parts you want the feature to affect by setting the scope. You can create a pattern of assembly features in the same manner as you create a pattern of features in a part.
- Reorder and Roll Back in Assemblies
- Replace Components PropertyManager
An assembly and its components may go through many revisions during the course of a design cycle. This is especially true in a multi-user environment where several users can work on the individual parts and subassemblies. A safe, efficient way to update the assembly is to replace the components as needed.
- Assembly Visualization
Assembly Visualization provides different ways to display and sort an assembly's components in a list and in the graphics area.
- Defeature Tool
With the Defeature tool, you can remove details from a part or assembly and save the results to a new file in which the details are replaced by dumb solids (that is, solids without feature definition or history). You can then share the new file without revealing all the design details of the model.
- Smart Components
- Smart Fasteners