Moving sub-asemblies
Moving sub-asemblies
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Hello,
I am relatively new to Solidworks.
I have created an assembly with a number of sub-assemblies. I am trying to move whole sub-assemblies to see them in different configurations, ideally saving the configurations, but is too difficult to do it. Sometimes they will not move, sometimes only some parts of the sub-assembly move, sometimes the sub-assembly drags another sub-assembly with it.
I do not have mates among sub-assemblies. I have made the sub-assemblies flexible. I have allowed the parts to float.
Is this not the way it is done in Solidworks, do I have to move the parts within the sub-assembly, not the latter or what am I doing wrong?
Thanks
I am relatively new to Solidworks.
I have created an assembly with a number of sub-assemblies. I am trying to move whole sub-assemblies to see them in different configurations, ideally saving the configurations, but is too difficult to do it. Sometimes they will not move, sometimes only some parts of the sub-assembly move, sometimes the sub-assembly drags another sub-assembly with it.
I do not have mates among sub-assemblies. I have made the sub-assemblies flexible. I have allowed the parts to float.
Is this not the way it is done in Solidworks, do I have to move the parts within the sub-assembly, not the latter or what am I doing wrong?
Thanks






RE: Moving sub-asemblies
What exactly do you mean "move"?
If you want to use the subassy's, you suppress or unsuppress the parts and assy's for each config that you want to use or not use.
Chris, CSWP
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RE: Moving sub-asemblies
I mean move the whole soub-assembly like this:
Supposing you have made a sub-assembly with all the parts (components) of the trunk of a car. The rest of the car is in the main assembly. You want to see how the trunk opens so you want to rotate/move the whole trunk sub-assembly, then you create a configuration of it open so that you have two: open and closed.
Thanks
RE: Moving sub-asemblies
In that case you create the OPEN and CLOSED configurations within the trunk subassembly, not the main car assembly. After the trunk sub-assembly is inserted into the main car assembly you select which trunk configuration you want to see by clicking on the PROPERTIES TOOL of the trunk sub-assembly. The PROPERTIES dialog box includes the option to select which configuration of the trunk sub-assembly you wish to see. It also gives you the option of tying that particular display of the trunk sub-assembly to a particular configuration of the main car assembly. That way you can create a TRUNK OPEN configuration of the main car assembly which in turn specifies the OPEN configuration of the trunk sub-assembly.
RE: Moving sub-asemblies
It also looks like I cannot see the movement of the whole sub-assembly, for instance by tying to a pivot, in the main assembly, and then rotating the sub-assembly with the cursor.
There are a number of features in Solidworks which are not as good as my previous Siemens software but I guess you cannot have it all.
RE: Moving sub-asemblies
RE: Moving sub-asemblies
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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