- [Instructor] One of the really amazing tools
inside of SolidWorks Assemblies
is the assembly visualization tool.
Take a look under "Evaluate" up here
under "Assembly Visualization."
Go ahead and fire that up,
and you can see here
it opens this little window on the left hand side.
And let's go ahead and just kind of drag that
across the screen,
and let's make our model over here
a little bit smaller.
Now you can see it's already colored our model,
showing us which is which.
And here's the different parts that are
in that assembly.
Here's the quantity.
Here is the open time, the total, and the mass,
and so, I've added this column here.
It's not normally there.
SolidWorks open time is not normally there.
Total mass is not normally there.
It's when you save it into that assembly
is when it brings it in.
So you have the ability to add these things in
with this little arrow right here at the top.
Click on that.
You can say I'd like this to be any
of these standard ones,
or you can click on "More,"
and then you can choose from
any one of these available values
as far as mass, material, open time,
rebuild time, and so on.
Can really kind of get in and figure out
what's going on with your model.
If there might be a part that's slowing it down,
or causing it to take extra time to load.
So, this one's kind of cool to add
this SolidWorks open time,
or rebuild time.
Just click OK, and now you have a rebuild time
as well as this SolidWorks open time.
So you can really evaluate your entire assembly,
and when you have a lot of components,
you can really see things.
You can also sort things by these.
So, click on that and you can sort how long it takes
or sort by how many are in each one of the assemblies,
the total weight, or the total rebuild time.
You can figure out how long it takes to open things,
rebuild them, and so on.
Now, in this model here,
it's a mold base.
It doesn't have anything that's really super complicated
that's taking an extra large amount of time.
But, if you did, you'd see it over here,
and you can see everything in the red
is the the one's going to take a little bit longer,
everything in the blue's going to be a shorter time here.
Overall, it just allows you to kind of visualize everything,
see what's happening,
and if there are some features
or some parts who are causing trouble,
you can definitely see it here using this tool.
That's assembly visualization.
It's only available, obviously, when you're
in the assembly mode,
but it's a great tool to take a look at.