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Fixing your assemblies

Fixing your assemblies - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Fixing your assemblies

- [Instructor] Once you've gotten pretty far in a design in SolidWorks for a large assembly, it's a good idea to start locking down your assembly if you don't need to utilize all the mates and relationships that you have in place because then SolidWorks is just going to have to go ahead and rebuild them every time it goes to the feature tree. So I've started with a simple assembly here, just a universal joint. If you've been using SolidWorks for awhile, you've probably seen this example before in the tutorials. But essentially, it's a universal joint that rotates. But you can see, as I rotate it around and around, it wants to rebuild here, and it has active mates that need to be calculated to do this motion. So as I'm moving, I'm actually putting a load onto my CPU in the performance of my system. So I know that everything works here. There's no collisions. It goes around and around no problem. So what I'm going to do is actually just start locking things down so. I'm first going to…

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