The dimensions of these properties can help determine the space required to ship and package a product.

Users can include hidden bodies and surfaces in the bounding box as well as hide, show, suppress and unsuppress a bounding box from a shortcut menu.īounding box properties are available in the Configuration Specific tab of the Summary Information dialog. When the part updates, the bounding box automatically resizes. For irregularly shaped objects, align the bounding box with a reference plane or reference surface. The resulting bounding box encloses the model with a minimum volume. In the new release, users can now also create a bounding box around a single body or multi-body part or a sheet metal part. The Bounding Box tool in SOLIDWORKS was previously limited to cut list items in weldments. Parts, Features, Sheet Metal and Drawings After the software imports the geometry from the corrupted file into a new file, the geometry can be used to add features to create a new model, although the new file will not contain any feature history. If SOLIDWORKS 2018 encounters a corrupted file that it is unable to repair, the software now prompts with an option to extract geometry if the body data of the file is still intact. For example, you can view the open and rebuild times for components, and the total number of graphics triangles for all instances of components. In addition, the Assembly Visualization tool helps troubleshoot assembly performance. When opening an assembly, the program now shows a progress indicator that provides information about what is happening while the assembly is opening, including how long it is taking, the number of parts and how many have opened. Users also can turn mesh data into a new mesh body type and then add SOLIDWORKS features and geometry. The new Surface from Mesh feature lets users quickly select faces from mesh data and turn them into surfaces. SOLIDWORKS 2018 also introduces ways to use data from other sources, including mesh data in a variety of formats, such as STL and OBJ. Create misaligned concentric mates and choose how to resolve imperfect conditions.

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