From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
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Exporting individual parts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
Exporting individual parts
Making multi bodies is a quick and efficient way to design. The only problem is, is that all the parts are together in one part file. It makes it difficult to make individual drawings or to create an assembly of the individual parts. No problem, though. The last time we looked at this part, we made a split body and separated this into individual pieces. However, they're all still in the same part. If you open that feature up, the split body. We can take a look inside there and you can see that we can save out individual files by just clicking on anyone one of them here, and adding a file name. If you didn't do this in this process, that's okay, we can always go back and add that later. Click on OK. And we come up to cut list up here, if you expand that out, you can see here's all the individual pieces. Now, the first thing that we can do is right click on it and say Insert into New Part. As soon as I do that it's going to ask me to save the part. In this case here, I'm going to say…
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