Part III: Working with Assemblies
You can animate the explode or collapse from the RMB menu. To do this, right-click the exploded
view and select Animate Explode or Animate Collapse. This method does not offer recording or
Photoworks rendering like Animator software, but it is fast and easy. You cannot see explode lines
during an animation.Tutorial: Working with Assembly
Configurations
To begin this tutorial, open the assembly named Chapter 14 Bike.sldasm. This assembly is
made from the same parts as the assembly that was used in Chapter 12, but it will be used differ-
ently here. This file contains all the aspects that you need to work with in this chapter, including
subassemblies, motion, and part configurations.To learn how to work with assembly configurations, follow these steps:- Prepare to use configurations by splitting the FeatureManager window into an
upper and lower pane. Place the FeatureManager on the top and the
ConfigurationManager on the bottom. - Before starting to make changes to this assembly, add the top-level configurations
that you will need, as follows:
l (^) Small Tires
l Motion Configuration
l (^) Skeleton Driven Positions
l Mate Driven Positions
The configurations will list alphabetically.
- Make sure that the Advanced options for each configuration are set to Suppress
new features and mates and suppress new components. - Activate the Small Tires configuration. Figure 14.21 shows the FeatureManager up to
this point.