Ah, now I understand. Ok. I have a 50 part "assembly" done in 0.13, but it's my first experience in FreeCAD and so I did everything in the Part Workbench (didn't understand the virtues of PartDesign). I'm recreating a few of the simpler parts in dev-assembly PartDesign after following the new tutori...

OK, searching through more of the forum I came across this: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4193&hilit=assembly#p32891 I'm a little fuzzy about what's supposed to happen once you double click on the body of a part. Is there some additional step to associate or convert a part? switch ...

hey, I've grabbed dev-assembly, and compiled just fine using the instructions. Can I get any hints as to how the assembly module works? Maybe a quick couple of lines about how it's intended that an assembly is made? I have a Assembly1->Product->Parts, then import another project with lots of parts, ...