Creating Engineering Templates

You can create engineering templates to create structured and reusable entities that you can access to instantiate and position in an assembly.

Before you begin: Define hangers, standard and contextual components.
  1. From the Compass, click Engineering Templates.
  2. Enter the required name of the engineering template, say Contextual_Component, and click OK.
    The Components tab appears by default.
  3. From the Engineering Template section of the action bar, click Add Reference to Template Definition .
    The Select a reference to insert in the template dialog box appears.
  4. Click Search to search for the required component and click OK.
    The component is added to the template. For more information, see Engineering Templates User's Guide: Adding a Reference to a Template Definition.
  5. Select a component in the tree so that it can be displayed in the loaded components section.
  6. To add the required inputs,
    1. Click Add Inputs to Template Definition .
      The Select inputs dialog box appears listing the features of the selected components.
    2. From the Objects section, select the required inputs that you want to add and click .
      The selected inputs are added to the Selected objects section.
    3. Click OK.
      The selected inputs are displayed in the Inputs tab and under the Inputs item of the tree.
    4. Optional: Modify the name of the input.

      Important:
      • Add _Multi string at the end of name to select the multiple inputs while instantiating the component.
      • You can add _Multi string to multiple inputs, but only one of them can be used for multi instantiation.

    For more information, see Engineering Templates User's Guide: Adding Inputs to a Template Definition.

  7. Optional: Add parameters to a template definition.
    For more information, see Engineering Templates User's Guide: Adding Parameters to a Template Definition.
  8. Save your template.

Tip: You can individual template for standard components, contextual components, and defined hangers.