With thinkdesign, you can also export IGES files out that are specifically tuned for import into other systems. Assemblies and drawings thinkdesign uses the same file for both parts and assemblies so you don't have to switch between different environments. Like the program's ability to fully integrate different modeling techniques, this increases the program's flexibility compared to many other programs. To appreciate this, we'll give a simple example. Let's say you have a part that turns out to be too expensive to manufacture.
Management decides to break it into two parts that are less expensive to produce.
Now your widget is actually a subassembly. Assembly capabilities in thinkdesign are adequate. Mating conditions include coincident, parallel, concentric, and side. Each has appropriate options of offsetting, aligning, anti-aligning, inside, and outside. This is a nice option.