From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications

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Saving as a part or assembly using FeatureWorks

Saving as a part or assembly using FeatureWorks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications

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Saving as a part or assembly using FeatureWorks

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- [Instructor] Once you've gone ahead and imported geometry from another software into SOLIDWORKS, the next step in the process is deciding whether or not to save that as a part or an assembly file in the native SOLIDWORKS format and the implications of that. Let's walk through a pair of solid assembly so we can see what I mean. I'm going to go ahead and navigate to a pair of solid that I have ready. You'll notice this is the XT version and I'm just going to hit Open. You can see here when I opened this part that originally was constructed as an assembly file, this is made obviously by the fact that in the feature tree, we can see several parts underneath it that are all separate in creating separate 3D geometry. Now if we want to at this point, we can go ahead and just click Save. And it'll save it in the location where we found it and you can say I've saved it before. So I'm simply going to overwrite that. And as well as saving the top level, it's also going to push all of the…

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