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This post brings up an interesting question. Why is it that when you insert the first component into an assembly it is fixed in that location by default? I hate that I have to float the part first, then mate it to the assembly planes or coordinate system. I'd prefer to have the part unfixed...

Whether or not you need both hinges to be flexible is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is SolidWorks has this flexible feature, so you should be able to use it if you want to. It makes no sense that you can't have two flexible hinges in an assembly with the hinges mated to both the door and...

After you insert the component into the assembly, right click on the part in the design tree and select "float". Next, rotate the part, as required. Finally, right click on the part and select "fix". The part is now fixed in the orientation you require.

What I ended up doing was creating a hinge mate in the hinge assembly with max and min values for the angle. Then in the door assembly I assembled one hinge to both the door and frame and set it to flexible. The other hinge was mated just to the door, but also set to flexible. Unfortunately, the...

I am not familiar with the term "in the context of an assembly". I have seen people mention "in-context" a number of times and don't know what that means. Can someone please explain this to me and describe how to use it? I have searched the help file and haven't been able to figure it out.

I want to control the length of a spring in an assembly by having that length related to the distance between two components (one static and one movable). I remember back in my Pro/E days that I could create an equation that made the length of my helix equal to a measurement of the distance...

You guys are a huge help! Thanks! Chris, do you typically insert your Rev symbols using that method? While that provides the cleanest looking dimension and Rev symbol combination, it takes quite a bit more time than my previous method. I previously would right click the row in the Rev table and...

Is this possible? What I'm looking for is a way to kind of "link" each Rev symbol to the dimension or annotation that it belongs to. The reason I would like to do this is so that if I move a view or a dimension the rev symbol would move with it. Currently, when I move a view or dimension, I...

Thanks for all of the input, everyone. Now I have some feedback to take to management. One thing that I find amusing is that while on my first coop job (11 years ago), one of my tasks was to actually eliminate the "Rev" column from the BOM tables on a list of about 100 assembly drawings. This...

The rev level is supposed to be a property of the part, but the engineers in the past didn't use the revision system correctly. Most parts are checked into the system with the revision "-". So any new assemblies will need to have each of their component parts updated as well.

Does anyone here show the revision level of component parts in their BOM tables on assembly drawings? I can foresee that doing this will cause major problems in the future, but am being told that I must do this going forward... What happens when you revise a component part that's used in a lot...

Alright, that worked. Don't know what was going wrong the last time, but this time I was able to save it without a problem. I even used a coincident mate instead of a parallel mate and that worked, as well. There are a couple of things that bug me about doing it this way. One of the hinge...

JMirisola, when you do that are you able to mate the 2nd hinge to both the frame and the door? I tried what you said and initially it seemed like it worked, but then when I went to save it I got all the yellow triangles on my mates and the "no solution found" message.

Sorry about that. Everything's in there this time.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=fbcdbb35-9a7b-4921-9ea9-4eea9d8d37d2&file=DOOR_ASSY_TEST.zip

Oh yeah, that's right. Funny how in AutoCAD you could always save to lower versions... Anyways, were you able to mate both hinges to both the door and the frame? Maybe that's a problem in 2009 that's been fixed in later versions. Attached is a simplified version of what I'm talking about. I...

I can't open those files. When I try to open the files I get an error message stating, "Cannot open ... Future Version:. I'm on Solidworks 2009 SP3.0. Can you save them to that version?

They are actually two separate assemblies. I have found a work around to make it appear to function correctly. I assembled each hinge sub-assembly so that the plate that mounts to the frame is mated coincidentally to the 3 planes of the sub-assembly. I then created a hinge mate for the pin...

Is there a way to mate two hinges to a door and frame in such a way that when the door swings, the second hinge follows? For your reference the two hinges are two separate sub-assemblies that are essentially mirror images of each other. I set the sub-assemblies to flexible and mated the first...

Sure. It's attached. http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=851a64e7-e9d4-4feb-b303-47829bdc1ce7&file=B0014030.SLDPRT

Yeah, I explored that option, but it turned into a nightmare. So many sketches needed to be mirrored that I deemed it not worth the trouble. Unfortunately, that will be my only option if the vendor doesn't accept the mirrored part model and drawing. As an aside to this, does anyone know how...