Replace Components
How to replace SOLIDWORKS Sub-assemblies with Multi-Body Parts while maintaining Drawing References!
As design evolves within SOLIDWORKS we find many customers have a desire to swap sub-assemblies for multi-body components. We could spend some time in this article to discuss why I think this may not be the best idea in regard to overall SOLIDWORKS performance, however…
We’ve all been there at some point or another. We’ve all modified a part and maybe changed the name of it, and our references got all screwed up. Typically, we get a message to the effect of “SOLIDWORKS cannot find file Old Part.SLDPRT. Would you like…
Perhaps you received a different part file that you need to use in your assembly. Or maybe your original file was lost and needed to be recreated. If the new file is saved as the same name as the original file, the next time you…