Creating the Assembly

Drag the parts to create the assembly.

  1. Create a new assembly document.
    Close the Begin Assembly PropertyManager if it appears.
  2. Open the three parts that you created: the left button plus the upper and lower housings.
    The right button is already open.
  3. Click Tile Horizontally (Standard toolbar) or click Window > Tile Horizontally so that all five documents are visible.
  4. In the LeftButton document, drag the part name, LeftButton, from the top of the FeatureManager design tree and drop it onto the Assem<n> name at the top of the assembly document's FeatureManager design tree.
    Dragging this way aligns all the documents properly to the new assembly document origin.
  5. Repeat the process for the right button, upper housing, and lower housing parts.
  6. With the assembly file active, click File > Save to This PC.
  7. In the dialog box, save the part to the Base folder as AssemblyBase.SLDASM.
    The assembly displays all the surface part line quilts. To hide the quilts, in the assembly's FeatureManager design tree, hide all the bodies in the Surface Bodies folder for all four components.