Defining Technological Impacts of a Civil Engineering Component on its Environment

You can create impacts following the instantiation of a component, create and edit impacts of already instantiated components, and propagate impacts while adding new instances of components.

Use this procedure to create impacts of components on their environment, and modify your selection in Impacting Components, Impact Result and Add Impacts. The computation of the impacts is based on the detection of clashes between visible elements (components, their holes and openings). Consequently:

  • To ignore visible elements in clash, hide them.
  • To create holes and openings that are not in clash with components, for example when creating an access to those components, display holes and openings of those components so that holes and openings are accounted for in the clash detection.

For more information, see Smart Mechanical Components User's Guide: Working with Smart Mechanical Components: Defining Technological Impacts of a Component on Its Environment.

This task shows you how to:

Create Impacts

You can create impacts of components on their environment, and modify your selection in Impacting Components, Impact Result and Add Impacts.

  1. Open the product where you want to create impacts.
  2. From the Component section of the action bar, click Component Impacts and select the impacting components.

    • The selected components can be any product instances that have some assembly features (even if the product has not been defined as a component).
    • You can select any instances of components, even from different parents.

    1. Select an Impacting Component and click Remove Selected to remove it from the list.
    2. Click Remove All to remove all Impacting Components.
    The impacting components you select are added to Impacting Components Impacting Components and the list of Tooling Assembly Features and Impacted Representations under Impact Result is updated automatically.

    Representations impacted by your selection are highlighted in red.

    • The column Assembly Features displays the impacting assembly features and the component instances.
    • The column Impacted Representations lists the representations that are impacted. They are also highlighted in the work area in red.
    • Impacts considers automatically that assembly features are used to impact that part, for example a hole or opening impacts all the parts but the last one.
    • When you select a line in the list, the assembly features and the Impacted Representation are highlighted in the work area.
  3. Optional: Modify the selection. For more information, see the example provided in Tooling Design :Defining Technological Impacts of a Tooling Component on its Environment (Step 3).
  4. If you are not satisfied with the Impact Result, you can add or remove impacts.
    1. Select an assembly feature from the list under Add Impacts.
    2. Go to Select a Representation and select one from the work area.
    3. Click Add to add this impact.

      Click for reset.

    4. Select a line from the Impact Result list and click Remove Selected to remove this impact.
    5. Click Remove All to empty the list of Impact Result.

Impact features are created under the PartBody of the Impacted Representation.

Create Holes and Openings

You can extend the clash detection to the holes and openings of components. The aim is to create holes or openings in walls or structures where the components are not in clash.

  1. Select the Impacting Components and Impacts as explained above.
  2. Click to display the holes or openings.
    is now available. OK is dimmed.
  3. Click to compute the impacts again.
    OK is available.

The holes and openings are created as explained above.