Creating and Editing Multiprofile Branches

You can create multiprofile branches by setting a local profile on the route elements and extremities of a segment. This allows you adapt the shape of your branches to their environment.

Tip: Before creating a multiprofile branch, you can select the Set local profile on route elements during branch route creation option to set automatically a local profile on the route elements you add to the route of a new branch. For more information, see Segment Profile.
Note: Since R2021x FD06 (FP.2116), a new build mechanism improves the shape of multiprofile branches. To upgrade branches created before this release, right-click the loft of a branch, and select Upgrade.

Before you begin:
  • Activate an electrical branch geometry, and then select a branch in the work area.
  • From the Branch section of the action bar, click Immersive Branch Definition .

    The Auto Routing Mode is activated and yellow bullets appear on route elements.

See Also
Multiprofile Concepts
About Immersive Branch Definition
  1. On the context toolbar, select Transform Mode > Detailed Profile Management , and then click a segment.

    Tip: Detailed Profile Management is also available when you click a route element or a segment extremity.

    Profile icons appear:

  2. Set your global options:
    OptionDescription
    Set/Unset Uniform Area
    • : indicates that the Uniform Area option is active. If you modify a profile, its new area is propagated to all the profiles on the selected segment.
    • : indicates that the Uniform Area option is inactive. If you modify a profile, only its area is updated.
    Set/Unset Transparent Visualization
    • : indicates that the Transparent Visualization option is active. Only the selected segment is visible in the 3D area.
    • : indicates that the Transparent Visualization option is inactive. All elements within your model are visible in the 3D area.
    Set/Unset Reference Axis Visualization
    • : indicates that the reference axis of local profiles are displayed in the 3D area.
    • : indicates that the reference axis of local profiles are hidden in the 3D area.
  3. Select a route element or a segment extremity to display the Detailed Profile Management context toolbar.
    Depending on the selected element, different commands are available.

  4. Set a profile by selecting a profile type either on the context toolbar or in the Detail Profile Management panel's Profile section.


  5. Edit the dimensions of the profile doing one of the following:
    • Drag the manipulators in the 3D area or in the panel's Preview section.

    • Enter precise values in the panel's Profile section.

    Important: If the defined dimensions prevent the update of the branch, the branch is colored in red and a warning message appears.

  6. Rotate the profile doing one of the following:
    • Drag the angle manipulator in the 3D area or in the panel's Preview section.

    • Enter a precise angle value in the panel's Rotation section.

    Tips:
    • To rotate the profile by 90 degree clockwise or counterclockwise, click or in the panel.
    • To rotate the profile by 180 degree and invert its orientation, click on the context toolbar.

  7. To propagate a profile and its properties to another route element or extremity:
    1. Click on the context toolbar.
    2. Select one or several elements in the 3D area.


    The shape of the segment is updated.

    Tip: To propagate a profile to all route elements and segment extremities in one go, click the segment.
  8. To propagate the profile and its properties of a segment extremity to another segment extremity:

    Important: The two segment extremities must belong to the same branch.

    1. Select the target segment, and then select a segment point extremity.
    2. On the context toolbar, do one of the following:

      • Click to import without link the profile of the adjacent segment point extremity to the selected point. The two profiles can then be edited independently.
      • Click to import with a link the profile of the adjacent segment point extremity to the selected point. The two segment point extremities share the same profile.

      To unlink profiles, click .



    The shape of the selected segment is updated.
  9. To validate your manipulations, click in the 3D area or press Enter.