Components

Components allow you to make Joints & Assemblies, which are very important features in CAD.

Components allow you to organize all of your actions relating to a part together.

When you don't use components, your sketches and bodies all appear in the main file.

When you use components, everything is color coded and you will be much more organized.

Activating Components

To activate a component, click the small dot to the right of the component you want. This will gray out any component or body that is not a subcomponent of your selection.

If something is grayed out, you cannot interact with it (AKA, Extrudes won't cut through grayed components). Keeping your CADs organized is very important, so always remember to use components wherever it makes sense to do so. A final benefit of components is that you can toggle visibility of objects more easily; for example, it is much simpler to turn on the sketches relating to a component than to sift through all your sketches in the main file to find out which ones relate to that one component.