Assembly Design

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Assembly Design Basics

Related Guides and Resources

Assembly Design Access to Content

User Interface

Action Bar

Assembly Section

Product Edition Section

Tools Section

Standard Area

Customize Commands

Context Toolbars

App Options Panel

Engineering Connection Context Toolbars

Offline Mode

Working with the Product Flexibility

Adding Components

Inserting an Existing Product

Inserting an Existing 3D Part

Inserting a New or Existing Product from Catalog or Library

Defining a Linear Multi-Instantiation in Context

Analyzing the Mechanical Design

Analyzing Degrees of Freedom

Displaying Degrees of Freedom

Analyzing Threads and Taps

Creating and Editing an Interference Simulation

Creating Interference Simulations using Engineering Connections

Computing Interferences in Non-Persistent Mode

Moving Components

About Moving Components

Moving Components with the Robot

Moving Components with the Robot (Advanced)

Manipulating Components

Detecting Clash when Moving Components

Snapping Components

Smart Move

About Smart Move

Smart Move

Smart Move with Viewer

Engineering Connections

Engineering Connection Concepts

About Engineering Connection Definition

About the Engineering Connection Definition Dialog Box

About Engineering Connection Options

About Regular Engineering Connection

About Contextual Engineering Connection

About Constraints

About Creating Constraints in Context

About Coupling Engineering Connections

About Flexible Components in Assembly Design

About Engineering Connections Reordering when Modifying Assembly Structure

About Pasting a Component Pointed by Engineering Connections

About Edit Links and Broken Engineering Connections

About Update and Engineering Connections

Creating Engineering Connections

Creating a User Defined Engineering Connection

Creating a Cable Engineering Connection

Creating a Cylindrical Engineering Connection

Creating a Free Engineering Connection

Creating a Gear Engineering Connection

Creating a Planar Engineering Connection

Creating a Point Curve Engineering Connection

Creating a Point Surface Engineering Connection

Creating a Prismatic Engineering Connection

Creating a Projection Engineering Connection

Creating a Rack Engineering Connection

Creating a Revolute Engineering Connection

Creating a Rigid Engineering Connection

Creating a Roll Curve Engineering Connection

Creating a Screw Engineering Connection

Creating a Slide Curve Engineering Connection

Creating a Spherical Engineering Connection

Creating a Symmetry Engineering Connection

Creating a Universal Engineering Connection

Creating Engineering Connections Contextually

Fixing Components

Fixing Components Together or Together Relatively

Defining an Engineering Connection

Enriching an Existing Engineering Connection

Deactivating or Activating Constraints

Constraining a Component with the Robot

Editing Constraints in Engineering Connections from the 3D area

Engineering Connection References

Templates for Engineering Connection Types

Constraints Proposed at Geometry Selection

Geometries for Constraints Definition

Constraint Options

Constraint Symbols

Interface Connections

About Interface Connections

Placing Components

Connecting Components

Showing/Hiding Hooking Points

Assembly Features

About Assembly Features

Creating an Assembly Hole

Creating an Assembly Added

Creating an Assembly Protected

Creating an Assembly Cut

Creating from a Functional Modeling Part Pattern

Instantiating Assembly Features in a Pattern

Editing Assembly Features

Assembly Geometry

Creating Points

Creating a Point Using Coordinates

Creating a Point on a Curve

Creating a Point on a Plane

Creating a Point on a Surface

Creating a Point Using the Center of a Circle/Sphere/Ellipse

Creating a Point Tangent on a Curve

Creating a Point Between Two Points

Creating Lines

Creating a Line Between Two Points

Creating a Line Using a Point and a Direction

Creating a Line Normal to a Curve

Creating a Line Tangent to a Curve

Creating a Line Normal to a Surface

Creating a Line at the Bisection of Two Lines

Creating Planes

Creating a Plane Offset From another Plane

Creating a Plane Parallel to a Plane and through a Point

Creating a Plane Normal to another Plane

Creating a Plane Through Three Points

Creating a Plane Through Two Lines

Creating a Plane Through a Point and a Line

Creating a Plane Through a Planar Curve

Creating a Plane Normal to a Curve

Creating a Plane Tangent to a Surface

Creating a Plane Using an Equation

Creating a Mean Plane Through Points

Creating a Plane Between two Planes

Defining an Axis System

Creating a Positioned Sketch

Creating Rectangular Patterns using Single Elements

Creating Circular Patterns using Single Elements

Creating User Patterns using Single Elements

Assembly Symmetry

About Assembly Symmetry

Creating an Assembly Symmetry

Assembly Pattern

About Assembly Pattern

Creating Assembly Pattern

Creating a Rectangular Assembly Pattern

Creating a Circular Assembly Pattern

Creating a User Defined Assembly Pattern

Creating an Assembly Pattern Using Axis Systems

Creating an Assembly Pattern from a Pattern Specification

Editing an Assembly Pattern

Modifying the Pattern Specification Referenced in an Assembly Pattern

Reusing a Pattern Specification in Another Location

Derived Representations

About Derived Representations

Creating a Derived Representation

Editing a Derived Representation

Design in Assembly Context

Measuring Inertia

About the Computation of Inertia

Measuring Inertia in the Context of a Product

Inertia References

Inertia Notations

Bounding Box Definition

Update

About Update

About the PLM Update Graph

Updating the Relational Design

Updating the Relational Design Using the Update Assistant

Links and Relations

Links and Relations Concepts

About Links and Relations

About B.I. Essentials

About Relation Status

About Selection and Cross Highlight

About Reconnecting Contextual Relations

About Reconnecting Mechanism

About Relation Filters

About Actions

About Navigation Tab

Synchronizing Links and Relations

Synchronizing Links or Relations Using the Synchronization Assistant

Changing the Pointed Component Major Version in a Relation

Changing the Pointed Component Minor Version in a Relation

Using B.I. Essentials in Assembly Design

Customizing Preferences

Reference Information

Assembly Design File-based Design Import

Assembly Design Database Design Import

Using Design Range Management with Assembly Design

Assembly Snaps

CATIA V5 POWER'BY Integration in Assembly Design

Quality Rules Management

Administration: About Data Setup for Assembly Design

Troubleshooting

Inertia Measure of Polyhedral Bodies

Nature of a New 3D Shape Created in Assembly Commands Context

No Update of a 3D Part in a Derived Representation

Icons Do Not Display Keep Link Statuses