- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Component Instance Numbering in Assemblies
- Purging Unused Features
In parts and assemblies, you can selectively delete features and components that are suppressed in all configurations of the model. You can also selectively delete unused reference geometry and sketches that have no child references in the model.
- 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
- Equations in Assemblies
The equation syntax for references between assembly components loads automatically when you select dimensions, features, and global variables in the FeatureManager design tree, the graphics area, File Properties, and the Equations dialog box.