SolidWorks provides ways for you to get your assembly models to talk. You don’t even need to bring in Jack Bauer (a shameless and gratuitous “24″ plug). You will find that the SolidWorks AssemblyXpert will come to the rescue when your model is either behaving badly or not at all.
The most common use for the AssemblyXpert in SolidWorks is to ask the assembly how many parts it has. No need for Sodium Pentathol here. Just go to the Tools… pulldown menu or the Evaluate tab in the Command Manager and choose AssemblyXpert. You will then be presented with a host of stats relating to your design.
You will note it spills it’s guts relating to top level components, mates being solved, ect…
I got a great tip from my colleague at CAPINC Al Zullo while he was working with a customer. The customer’s assembly disappeared, all the components in the feature tree were still showing. The zoom to fit command blew the screen to infinity. Once again, we bring in the AssemblyXpert. The tool told us that there was a component “very far away from the origin” and showed a wrench button….click….moved the component into view and the zoom factor fixed itself. He didn’t even need to initiate waterboarding!
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