Starting a SOLIDWORKS assembly file and adding parts to it

To demonstrate how to start an assembly file and add parts to it, we will start an assembly file and add the following parts to it. Make sure that you download the files that accompany this chapter. The parts you will download are as follows:

  • A small triangular part:
  • A larger base part, which will house the smaller triangular part:

Now that you've downloaded these parts onto your computer, we can start opening our assembly file.

Get Learn SOLIDWORKS 2020 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial