{"id":24405,"date":"2019-08-20T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=24405"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:13:16","slug":"solidworks-tech-tip-assembly-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2019\/08\/solidworks-tech-tip-assembly-visualization.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip \u2013 Assembly Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOLIDWORKS Assembly Visualization can be used for a variety of tasks like interrogation and analysis of your top-level design or model performance.\u00a0 It\u2019s a powerful tool to paint a color scale on top of your assembly components based on any property or internally computed data (numeric or categorical). It also provides a fast way to create a tabular output of your assembly\u2019s custom properties to Excel .XLS<\/p>\n

One example would be to list and display the largest contributors to your product\u2019s total mass:<\/p>\n

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Image 1 \u2013 Using Assembly Visualization to understand highest Mass components<\/p>\n

This makes sense intuitively, to take a numerical property that most of our parts have (we are all defining Mass Custom Properties, right?) and create an output that orders and paints a scale. Think about what information you might be capturing that would be useful to visualize this way. And not just numerical data, but categorical \u2013 think about Material:<\/p>\n

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Image 2 \u2013 Viewing Categorical Data like Material<\/p>\n

Or in a team environment, or as a project manager, taking a look at Status of each component:<\/p>\n

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Image 2B \u2013 \u2026 or Status.<\/p>\n

Finally, there is information internal to SOLIDWORKS that we don\u2019t typically think of as a Custom Property, but would be valuable to order and isolate in our assemblies. \u2018Performance Analysis\u2019 is a new button that shows useful metrics to isolate components contributing to slower than desired performance:<\/p>\n

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Image 3 \u2013 Isolating the top contributors to Assembly Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOLIDWORKS Assembly Visualization can be used for a variety of tasks like interrogation and analysis of your top-level design or model performance.\u00a0 It\u2019s a powerful tool to paint a color scale on top of your assembly components based on any<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":24404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2507,35],"tags":[156,60],"class_list":["post-24405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks-2019","category-tips-tricks","tag-assembly","tag-tech-tip"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions\/24491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}