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Originally Posted by DampRobot
Do you know of this works in SolidWorks too? I used to be an Inventor user, but our CAD mentor had us switch over to SW last year...
For what it's worth, I usually plan on putting everything I want to move at once in one assembly. Either that or (to test a few configurations, not motion) moving one subassembly, then saving it, and then going into the main assembly and hitting update
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Nice subassembly organization to save time and keep things clean isn't conducive to handling motion the way you do. I used to do it this way, until someone on chief tipped me off to the solution.
-Right click on a subassembly in the feature tree, and go to "component properties".
-Near the bottom right, there is "Solve as". Set this to flexible.
Enjoy cleaning organization and all the movement you want!
I find keeping every movable part movable annoying, so I often set things back to rigid when I'm done analyzing motion.
A bit further off topic, sometimes when a design is closer to done, I'll mate the systems into all their possible positions and have each as a configuration at the top level. So you have a "load", "shoot", etc... configuration that shows all systems in their appropriate location.