SoildWorks Structural Design - Hamilton By Design Large Assemblies with Solidworks 1.) Use the Large Assembly and Lightweight Modes for Assemblies/Drawings Large assembly mode will automatically trigger some set of performance improving options based on a user defined component threshold. Lightweight components have improved opening, rebuild, and closing times. Primarily the graphical information and reference geometry are loaded into memory, but the features that define the part are not loaded into memory. These cannot be edited or shown in the feature manager design tree. Resolved – Parts, Assemblies and Drawings: In resolved mode, all components are fully loaded in memory. Quick view – Parts: It opens the part only for viewing. You can able to select the configuration, but not the display state. You can move, scale, or rotate the model, but you cannot make changes. If any changes needed means switch to edit mode by the right-click in the graphics area and select t...