Inserting or Replacing Components

Right-click the CATProduct or cgr and select Components > Existing Component.
OR
Right-click the CATProduct that is not the root component, or a CATPart and select Components > Replace Component.
The behavior of Existing Component or Replace Component options depend on the following settings for 3DEXPERIENCE Platform in the Document Environments area:
- 3DEXPERIENCE Platform set to Current: The Open dialog box appears.
- 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is set to Allowed:
  1. By default, the dialog box relevant to the option set to Current in the Document Environments area opens. For example, if Folder is set to Current, and 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is set to Allowed, the folder on the local computer opens.
  2. Close the dialog box to view the Doc Chooser dialog box.
  3. Click 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to open the Open dialog box.
In the Open dialog box, search for the required component.
Note: You can insert components of multiCAD data type in a structure.
Select the required component and click OK.

The selected component is inserted or replaced in the product structure.

Note: While replacing components,

An error message appears when a file is inserted from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and the file exists in your local directory too. To avoid this error, delete the file from the local directory and insert from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
Multiple selection of components is not supported for the Replace Component option.
Replace component updates all instances of the replaced component.
You cannot restore the replaced component.
Multiple selection of components is supported for Insert Component. Selected components are downloaded from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and inserted in the product structure.
An error message is displayed for components of unsupported types. If components of both supported and unsupported types are selected for insert, only components of supported types are inserted. An error message appears with a list of component of unsupported types.
In the Confirm File overwrite dialog box, you can view the documents which cannot be overwritten. Checkbox and OK button is disabled for documents which cannot be overwritten. A tool tip appears for the documents which are not unloadable in this dialog box.