What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2016: Virtual Subassemblies with Child Components

Every year SOLIDWORKS releases a new version of its flagship product, and last year, a new tradition was born here on the Blogs. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be taking a closer look at the Sneak Peek features we presented.

Virtual Subassemblies with Child Components
When you make a subassembly virtual, you can make all of its child components virtual at the same time. Conversely, when you save a virtual subassembly to an external file, you can save all of its child components to external files at the same time. When you make a subassembly virtual or save a virtual subassembly to an external file, the option to include its child components is available in the dialog box.

If you’re unfamiliar, virtual components are saved internally to the assembly file instead of in separate part or subassembly files. To learn more about virtual components and top-down assembly modeling, head over to MySolidWorks and check out the Top-Down Assembly Modeling Lesson!

Originally posted by Rachel Diane York in the SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog.

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