Enriching an Existing Engineering Connection

You can enrich an existing engineering connection that is already defined, or create a new engineering connection.

Tip: Reuse an existing engineering connection to improve and simplify the PLM update. Create a new engineering connection to find another solution when the mechanism is over-constrained.

Before you begin: Open an existing product containing an engineering connection.
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Engineering Connection Concepts
  1. Double-click an existing engineering connection in the tree.
    The Engineering Connection Definition dialog box appears containing one constraint.



  2. Click Cancel in the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box.
  3. From the Assembly section of the action bar, click Engineering Connection .
    An empty Engineering Connection Definition dialog box appears.
  4. In the work area, select two geometric elements to be connected in the same components as those involved in the existing engineering connection.



    Since an engineering connection already exists between the selected components, the Choose Connection dialog box appears and displays the list of existing engineering connections.
  5. Select the engineering connection to enrich and click Enrich.

    Note: To create a new engineering connection, click Create New.

    The Engineering Connection Definition dialog box disappears during this operation.

  6. Click OK.

    The new constraint is added to the engineering connection in the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box.

  7. Click OK in the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box.
    Important:

    During engineering connection creation, while the Positioning Mode option is on , no engineering connection is created when clicking OK in the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box.

    The Positioning Mode option is not available during engineering connection edition.