The Desktop Browser
When you start Mechanical Desktop, the Desktop Browser appears in a docked position at the left side of the your screen. This is where Mechanical Desktop keeps a hierarchy of the steps you have taken to produce either a part or an assembly (see Figure 25.3).
Figure 25.3. The Desktop Browser dialog box shows the hierarchy.
When you begin an assembly, Mechanical Desktop starts a new drawing in the Part/Assembly environment. The assembly is named after the current file. When you create the first sketch, a part is automatically named and represented in the browser. Because the first thing you create is a sketch, it is nested ...
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