Assembly instructions: 6 advantages of creating them with SOLIDWORKS Composer

How do you easily create assembly instructions or technical manuals for your CAD projects? With SOLIDWORKS Composer, you no longer need to capture your images in SOLIDWORKS. In fact, SOLIDWORKS Composer lets you create your assembly instructions independently: it generates your views and technical illustrations directly in SOLIDWORKS Composer.

1. Import native SOLIDWORKS CAD files directly into SOLIDWORKS Composer

By importing your native SOLIDWORKS CAD file into SOLIDWORKS Composer, the assembly tree structure and custom properties are preserved in SOLIDWORKS Composer.

2. Add explanatory elements directly in views (arrows, labels, dimensions...)

With SOLIDWORKS Composer, you no longer need to go through Word or Excel to add explanatory elements to views. You can add arrows to explain how the product works, dimensions (length, diameter, angle...), custom annotations... all directly in SOLIDWORKS Composer.

3. Quickly generate a bill of materials and markers

Using SOLIDWORKS Composer, you can generate BOMs and reference marks quickly and easily using SOLIDWORKS custom properties.

4. Optimize the creation of your technical illustrations

The technical illustration tool lets you create and publish vectorized images of your scene. Vector graphics represent images using shapes such as lines, polygons and text.

So you can :

• Scale images to any size without losing resolution.

• Modify the objects that make up the image.

• Generate all your scenes in a single operation

5. Updating images from a modified CAD file

If your CAD model has been modified in SOLIDWORKS, you can update your project directly in SOLIDWORKS Composer. This action will update your images in the final manual without having to start all over again.

6. Easily create high-resolution images for your assembly instructions

The High Resolution Image Tool generates high-resolution raster images (BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG) of your scene. This is a very useful tool for quickly creating realistic renderings.

In conclusion

SOLIDWORKS Composer saves you a considerable amount of time in creating your assembly instructions, by generating the views of your technical manuals from 3D. In short, you'll no longer need to take screenshots over and over again in SOLIDWORKS each time you modify a CAD file.

In fact, with SOLIDWORKS Composer, if you update your modifications, your instructions are automatically updated!