SOLIDWORKS Treehouse is a powerful tool for creating and managing assembly structures, now in S SOLIDWORKS 2016 Treehouse provides you with even greater flexibility. Using this gearbox assembly as an example, when exporting a hierarchy you can now save existing SOLIDWORKS documents as new copies. Starting from the top down, just select “saveas new document” from the right mouse menu and enter a new name for the copy. At the same time new properties can be added and existing ones modified. When finished, the part or assembly node background becomes green, giving you a clear indication at all times of which items will be copied.
Not only that, configuration specific properties can now be modified directly from the Treehouse hierarchy. Simply select the properties icon for the desired node, choose from the one of the available configurations, and then make your required change.
Previously only new configurations could be added to a SOLIDWORKS file using Treehouse. Now in 2016 configurations can also be deleted, meaning you now no longer need the extra step of opening the files in SOLIDWORKS to manage configurations.
When modifying an assembly structure its typical to want to remove items as well as add them, now in treehouse 2016 you can remove a part or sub-assembly from any copied top level assembly, in this case the front cover of the gearbox casing. Giving you full control over the complete assembly hierarchy.
With the changes to gearbox assembly structure complete, a new setting provides the option to automatically load the assembly on export from treehouse. With this option enabled the new gearbox assembly is automatically opened in SOLIDWORKS ready for you to continue developing your design.
All modifications made to the hierarchy in treehouse have been applied to the new Gear Box assembly and its parts, including document name changes, removal of the configuration on the drive shaft, and changes to configuration specific properties.
In SOLIDWORKS 2016, Treehouse provides you with even greater flexibility for creating and managing assembly structures.