This advanced tutorial describes recommended techniques for designing stylized molded products with multiple components.
You might want to design molded products but do not know the best way to break up the master part into its various molded housings. Maybe it is unclear what the correct tools and methods are in SOLIDWORKS for deriving parts to their individual housings and for maintaining associativity.
By using the techniques recommended in this tutorial, your molded parts retain associativity between each other and should experience fewer downstream problems.
This tutorial teaches you how to build an assembly of a computer mouse from a master part, using three different techniques:
- Base part - Use the Insert Part command to derive parts
- Split part - Use the Split command to split out parts
- Multibody - Use the Save Bodies command
to derive parts
These techniques are not a replacement for using assemblies. Because the master part is a part document, limitations exist such as no mates between components. However, you can still rotate or move the bodies using the Move/Copy command.