The Save Bodies Command: SolidWorks' Hidden Batch Part Extractor

A Reddit post asking about converting solid bodies to individual part files got 77 upvotes. The top comment pointed to Insert → Features → Save Bodies — and multiple replies said they’d never heard of it despite years of SolidWorks use. CSWP holders included. This is not a niche feature. It’s the correct way to extract individual part files from a multi-body part, and it does things that Insert into New Part and manual workflows cannot match. ...

8 June 2026 · 7 min · CadShift