The Assembly Browser is useful for numerous reasons. Not only is it a good way to view a part but when performing Repair operations, it can be very helpful for selecting individual parts that you want to perform operations on such as Repair, Delete, Move, etc. 

Also, try loading in a part, opening Tools->Assembly Browser, check "Always Zoom to Selection", and then select the first part in the list. You'll see the view zoom into the selected part. Now use your up or down arrows to cycle through the parts in the assembly. 

When a single part is in the display, try checking the "Enable Face Highlighting" option, expand the Body tree control and again, use the keyboards up and down arrows to cycle through the part's faces.

If the part had a name in the file that was translated into TransMagic, then you will see that name in the Browser.  If not you will notice that TransMagic will give it an arbitrary name based on the file name.  For multiple parts TransMagic will give the part's names with an appended (1), (2), (3), etc. simply numebered in succession for all parts.  You can change the name of the part at any time by selecting the part and then Right-Click, and then select "Rename Part".  The "Rename Part" function is also available under the "Tools" menu.  This new name will now travel with the part in it's new format.

If the original model had parts on a certain level, this will be displayed in the TransMagic Assembly Browser preceding the part name in brackets [].  For example, if a part named "Part 1" were originally on level 100 in it's native CAD file format, this would be shown in the Assembly Browser as "[L:100] Part 1".  While TransMagic does not currently have level manipulation tools, the level information will be written to the output file format.

If a part is Hidden it will be identified with "(Hide)" in the Assembly Browser. 

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