Boris B. answered • 07/22/19
Expert Mechanical Design Engineer, (English-Russian)
A skeleton part is a part that drives top-level parts, assemblies, etc. The skeleton part classically contains planes, axes and other reference geometry that bounds the design. In SW you can insert the skeleton part into every part of the design so you are sure your product is within a fixed workspace. In assemblies, you can use the skeleton as a reference in in-context design. Any change made to the original skeleton sketch will propagate to all of the other components.
A solution to this is to create a part that has this plan view in it as a sketch. Also, having Reference Geometry such as planes can aid in applying mates. This SOLIDWORKS Skeleton Part is inserted as the first component into each assembly (top-level and each station’s sub-assembly). This allows seeing where the other sub-assemblies or the parts without loading the top-level assembly.
Md shahinur R.
Hi boris, Thanks for your nice concept describing. Few questions, is this skeleton part be included on the BOM? is there any mass property would be calculated for it? If somehow forget to insert at the first component, and insert at later then how could be manage that? Can you please share with a video for more detail understanding of that concept? Best wisher for you.05/07/24