best way to make an assembly in Solidworks
hi, I'm a newbie here and I have a question in Solidworks assembly. which method is best and less troublesome to make an assembly between multibody part modeling or build each part individually and bring into an assembly?
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Think in terms of the effort required to create detail drawings of the individual parts in a multi body part file. Also consider how it will affect your parts/BOM lists. While there are some cases where design efficiencies can be gained in a multi body environment, the overall workflow for all things design related doesn’t work well in the multi body environment. Also consider the reuse of individual parts in other assemblies. A multi body design process doesn’t work well for data reuse since parts are often hard linked to their related parts. I often take existing parts and do a save-as and then make minor changes for a one-off part. That’s not easily done in a multi body environment.
