SOLIDWORKS |Managing External References in Library Feature Part| Creating Design Library Features
Learn how to create your own Design Library features in SOLIDWORKS. You can improve the consistency of your designs and reduce the time spent designing by employing this technique.
This tutorial goes over several tips and techniques on how to efficiently design library feature parts and manage the creation of external references within them. Such techniques include methods such as creating dummy solids, hiding and showing solid bodies while sketching, and creating construction sketches and planes to orient and position sketch geometry. We also look at some inefficient and overly complicated library features and the simple errors that cause them to require more external references than desired. Several commands such as Display/Delete references can help a user analyze what external references they are creating as well as asses the geometry dependencies between their features. By carefully planning out the features in the original part, it is possible to create simple and easy-to-use library features out of any SOLIDWORKS model.