No more Virtual Components by default…

In SolidWorks 2010, there is a new option relating to creating new in-context components in an assembly that may reduce the blood pressure of many SolidWorks users. The new option is “Save new components to external files”. If selected, SolidWorks prompts you to name and save new in-context components to external files, like it used to prior to SolidWorks 2008. If cleared, saves new in-context components in the assembly file as virtual components. I can go on and on about Virtual components and how useful they are, but I will save that for another post.