SolidWorks® 2010: No Experience Required™

Chapter 9. Modeling Parts Within an Assembly

• Create the Shade Subassembly

• Create an In-Context Model

• Finish the Shade Model

• Finish the Shade Subassembly

• Add Configurations to an Assembly

Sometimes when creating parts for an assembly, it is difficult to anticipate changes that will be made to the various components and how they will affect other components in the assembly. So far, you have created all the components for the desk lamp separately, and then you built subassemblies from them. This is often referred to as bottom-up design. One drawback to this approach is that as a component in the desk lamp is updated, it may be necessary to manually make the changes to other components.

In this chapter, you will be using a different approach when you create ...