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<\/p>\nSOLIDWORKS Assembly Visualization can be used for a variety of tasks like interrogation and analysis of your top-level design or model performance.\u00a0 It\u2019s a powerful tool to paint a color scale on top of your assembly components based on any property or internally computed data (numeric or categorical). It also provides a fast way to create a tabular output of your assembly\u2019s custom properties to Excel .XLS<\/p>\n
One example would be to list and display the largest contributors to your product\u2019s total mass:<\/p>\n
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Image 1 \u2013 Using Assembly Visualization to understand highest Mass components<\/p>\n
This makes sense intuitively, to take a numerical property that most of our parts have (we are all defining Mass Custom Properties, right?) and create an output that orders and paints a scale. Think about what information you might be capturing that would be useful to visualize this way. And not just numerical data, but categorical \u2013 think about Material:<\/p>\n
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Image 2 \u2013 Viewing Categorical Data like Material<\/p>\n
Or in a team environment, or as a project manager, taking a look at Status of each component:<\/p>\n
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Image 2B \u2013 \u2026 or Status.<\/p>\n
Finally, there is information internal to SOLIDWORKS that we don\u2019t typically think of as a Custom Property, but would be valuable to order and isolate in our assemblies. \u2018Performance Analysis\u2019 is a new button that shows useful metrics to isolate components contributing to slower than desired performance:<\/p>\n
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Image 3 \u2013 Isolating the top contributors to Assembly Performance<\/p>\n
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