Can someone please tell me what the forth Icon on the tree means? It looks like an assembly icon but a little different. Its the one with the name "Reader Bracket with Gear"
Can someone please tell me what the forth Icon on the tree means? It looks like an assembly icon but a little different. Its the one with the name "Reader Bracket with Gear"
Mukesh,
That means a flexible assembly. Basically what this allows you to do is mate a component
from a subassembly at the upper level assembly level. I have run into this when my company
wants a component at a sub assembly level for inventory reasons, but is does not get installed
until the final assembly level.
That's a flexible sub-assembly. When you insert assemblies into an assembly it (by default) treats it as a rigid group, to save on mate rebuild times. You can make it flexible though, and then it will calculate all the mates within that sub-assembly even at the higher assembly level.
http://help.solidworks.com/2011/English/solidworks/sldworks/legacyhelp/sldworks/assem_1/flexible_sub-assemblies.htm