Assemblies

Contents

• Chain Pattern
  

  You can pattern components along an open or closed loop path to simulate roller chains, energy chains, and power transmission components.

• Confirm Delete Dialog Box
  

  In an assembly, you can prevent items from being automatically deleted when their parent features are deleted.

• Deleting Subassemblies and Components of Subassemblies
  

  When you delete a component from a subassembly, you can delete the component only, or the entire subassembly.

• Editing Limit Mate Values in the Graphics Area
  

  You can view and edit the Min and Max values in the Modify Dimensions dialog boxes for Distance and Angle Mates.

• Enhanced Performance when Hiding and Showing Components
  

  Performance is improved for hiding and showing components in large assemblies when you select a large number of components or have a large number of components already hidden.

• Equations in Assemblies
  

  Performance is improved when creating equation references between assembly components.

• Selecting by View
  

  You can select all the assembly components that are visible from a standard or current view.

• Exploded Views
  

• Forming and Dissolving Subassemblies
  

  You can form or dissolve a subassembly that contains suppressed components from the FeatureManager design tree or the graphics area.

• Interference Detection
  

  You can ignore all interference volumes less than a selected value. You can also sort the list of results.

• Isolate Components
  

  You can isolate components while editing the components within the context of an assembly. This also applies to multibody components and subassemblies.

• Mates
  

• Move Face in Assemblies
  

  You can use the Move Face option to move a component face up to the surface of another component.

• Open Summary Report Created When Opening Assemblies
  

  You can use these options when opening assemblies and assembly drawings.

• Temporarily Fix Components to Limit Dynamic Motion
  

  You can temporarily fix or group components or subassemblies to test motion or design setup directly from the top-level assembly.

• Rotating Inserted Components in Assemblies
  

  When you insert a component into an assembly using the Insert Component PropertyManager, you can change its orientation.

• Saving Component Instances as New Files
  

  You can save one or more component instances as a new file from within an assembly. The assembly points to the new file for those instances only; other unselected component instances in the assembly still point to the original file.

• SpeedPak Quick Include Can Exclude Internal Components
  

  SpeedPak can automatically exclude internal components when using the Quick Include slider.

• Treehouse
  

  With Treehouse, you can set up your file structure in a graphical user interface before you start building the models in SOLIDWORKS.