Section Conclusion: Let's Start Doing Assemblies:

This section covered assemblies in SOLIDWORKS.

Before your leave this section make sure you know the following:

• How to open an assembly file from nothing and from a part.
• What are the three types of mates in a SOLIDWORKS assembly: Standard, Advanced, Mechanical.
• Which part is fixed by default in an assembly.
• What are and how to use the standard mates: Coincident, Parallel and Perpendicular.
• What are and how to use the standard mates: Tangent and Concentric.
• How to identify existing mates.
• How to delete and/or modify existing mates.
• What are and how to use the standard mates: Distance and Angle.
• What is and how to use the standard mate: LOCK.

If you do not know or unsure of any of the listed aspect above, we recommend reviewing the lectures in this section again before moving to the next!!

Also, you can always post any questions, comments, suggestions or whatever in the discussion board or directly contact the instructor :)