Selecting Bodies and Features of Multibody Parts

When you open multibody parts in SOLIDWORKS, you can use several selection commands to view discrete bodies and features of the model.

Benefits: You can hide, add, delete, or suppress nonessential bodies and features to improve model performance and help you complete your task more quickly.

These commands let you select discrete bodies and features of multibody parts:

• Select Bodies By Size
• Select Bodies By Volume

To access these commands, open a multibody part and click Tools > Selection or right-click the Selection Tools flyout menu and select a command.

Select Bodies By Size

Specify a percentage of the part size that you want to select. Specify these options:

• Dynamic selection. Displays a dynamic preview of your selections as you change the value for Percentage of part size.
• Select parent features. Selects the parent features in the FeatureManager design tree. This selects the discrete features that make up the bodies. If you clear this option, the software selects only the bodies themselves. Depending on your selection, you can proceed with your required actions such as deleting, hiding, or suppressing entities.
  If you import neutral-format multibody parts, to create Imported parent features, in the FeatureManager design tree, right-click the Imported part icon and click Break Link. This action cannot be undone.

For more information, see Select Bodies by Size Dialog Box.

Select Bodies By Volume

Select bodies based on a temporary volume that you define.

Follow the directions in the PropertyManager.