SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Chapter 28: Employing Master Model Techniques

making changes to the Split feature could wind up overwriting the file with the additional features.

Also changing the number of bodies going into the Split feature usually had bad effects on down-

stream data. Still some changes to the number of bodies (such as reducing the number of bodies,

and then increasing it manually, undoing the original change) can still result in unpredictable

behavior.

Create Assembly

After you create the Split feature and you save bodies out of the Split feature, the RMB menu displays

the Create Assembly option, which puts all the parts from the bodies in the original part back

together in the correct positions. Parts within the assemblies created this way are fixed in space with

the same relationship to the assembly origin that they originally had as bodies to the part origin.

Save Bodies

To access the Save Bodies feature, either right-click on the bodies folders and select it from the

RMB menu or choose Insert ➪ Features ➪ Save Bodies from the menus. Save Bodies works by giv-

ing path and filename information in the Resulting Bodies selection box of the Split

PropertyManager. However, Save Bodies enables you to create an assembly right in the

PropertyManager for the feature, rather than as a hidden feature with no record of the assembly

name created by the feature. The PropertyManager for Save Bodies is shown in Figure 28.7.

FIGURE 28.7

The Save Bodies PropertyManager