You can use Edit Assembly to edit assemblies in Large Design Review
mode. Additional features and tools are available when you edit an assembly in
Large Design Review mode.
To use this functionality, open the assembly
and component files individually and then save in SOLIDWORKS 2020 and later. Click
to save all the open files at the same time.
In the FeatureManager design tree, you can view the following features
for top-level assemblies and components:
| Features |
Top-level Assemblies |
Components |
| Standard planes |
 |
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| Origin |
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| Mates folder |
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|
Mates in
assembly
 folders |
|
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| Reference geometry, read-only |
|
Loads only some child components. See
Reference
Geometry below for more information. |
| Sketches, read-only |
|
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| Component Patterns, read-only |
|
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| Reference planes |
|
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| Axes - not temporary axes |
|
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| Reference points |
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| Coordinate systems |
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|
On the
Large Design Review tab of
CommandManager, these tools are available:
- Insert Components
- Mate
- Linear Component
Pattern
- Circular Component
Patter
You cannot edit an assembly in Large Design Review mode if the top-level
assembly contains
a
flexible subassembly or
one of these features:
| Belt/Chain |
Chamfer |
Circular Pattern (feature) |
| Extruded Cut |
Fillet |
Hole Series |
| Hole Wizard |
Linear Pattern (feature) |
Mirror (feature) |
| Revolved Cut |
Simple Hole |
Sketch Driven Pattern (feature) |
| Swept Cut |
|
Weld Bead |
Reference Geometry
When you edit an assembly in Large Design Review mode, reference geometry
loads only
for one:
- The top-level assembly and the immediate child
components.
- Mates in lower-level child components where a top-level
assembly mate references the reference geometry in the child component.
To load reference geometry for lower-level child components,
right-click the component and click Load Reference
Geometry. After you load the reference geometry, Load Reference Geometry is no longer available for
the component.
For example, you mate the right plane for a child component in a
subassembly to the right plane in the top-level assembly. For the child component,
only the reference geometry for the right plane loads the next time you open the
assembly for editing in Large Design Review mode.
Table Driven PatternFor lower-level child components mated to the
origin in the top-level assembly, reference geometry loads for the origin and the
front plane.