Creating an Electrical Symmetry

You can create the symmetry of an electrical assembly using the Assembly Symmetry command in the Assembly Design app.

Before you begin: In Assembly Design, open an electrical root product containing an electrical geometry, electrical devices, supports, electrical branch geometries and an electrical physical system.
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About Electrical Symmetry
  1. From the Assembly section of the action bar, click Assembly Symmetry .
    On the right side of the 3D area, the Assembly Symmetry panel displays symmetry options. Click the Unpin arrow if needed to display the options.
  2. Under Associativity, select the Position option to specify that symmetric instances are fixed with a constraint.
  3. Select an original component out of the root product.

  4. Select a plane or planar surface to define the symmetry.
    • The original component is colorized as the original reference.
    • The symmetric component is highlighted as its symmetric reference.

      By default, a new component is created if you do not change the option in the context toolbar.

    • A context toolbar appears and suggests options for the symmetric component.
  5. Click in the 3D area to validate.
    A progress bar appears during the generation of the assembly symmetry.

    After the end of the generation, the symmetric component is created and appears as a new node in the tree.

  6. From the standard area of the action bar, click Update .

    Important: When you generate a symmetrical electrical assembly with the Assembly Symmetry command, Engineering Connections are created to connect electrical devices to other electrical devices or to an electrical branch geometry.

    Moreover, if the Position option is selected, additionnal Engineering Connections are created to add constraints on the position of original instances and symmetric instances. This configuration may generate over-constrained assemblies.

    To avoid over-constrained assemblies, some Engineering Connections may be deactivated and a warning is displayed when updating the assembly: Deactivated Engineering Connection was ignored.

    If you do not want to see this warning, please uncheck Display warnings in the update report in PLM Update Behavior in Error and Warning Messages.