Defining an Assembly of Mechanisms

The assembly function allows you to create macro mechanisms—also referred to as multilevel mechanisms—using existing mechanisms in the product structure. All the engineering connections included in the assembled mechanisms are accounted for in the macro mechanism. You can add additional engineering connections in the macro mechanism to link assembled mechanisms. You can access the assembly function using the Mechanism Manager tool. The available mechanisms to be assembled appear under the Assembly tab of the Mechanism Manager.

Before you begin: Open a product with at least two mechanism representations and engineering connections.
See Also
About the Mechanism Manager
Defining a Mechanism
About Mechanism Assemblies
  1. Double-clicking a product reference to specify its working context.
  2. Create a macro mechanism under the product reference. For more information, see Creating Mechanism Representations.

    A macro mechanism is a standard mechanism representation for a product that already includes existing mechanism representations.

  3. Click Mechanism Manager .
  4. In the Mechanism Manager box, click the Assembly tab.
    The available mechanisms to be assembled are listed in the Mechanism List.
  5. Select the mechanisms to include in or to exclude from the assembly:
    • To include a mechanism, highlight the mechanism in the table and click Include. Alternatively, click the check box that appears in the first column on the left .
    • To exclude a mechanism, highlight the mechanism in the table and click Exclude. Alternatively, clear the check box that appears in the first column on the left .
    • To include all available and independent mechanisms in the mechanism assembly, click Include All.
      Warning: You can only assemble independent mechanisms into a macro mechanism.
    • To exclude all available mechanisms from the mechanism assembly, click Exclude All.

    Tip:
    • Right-click a mechanism in the table to display a context menu and configure the mechanism:
      • Select Include to include the mechanism.
        Note: If the selected mechanism is already assembled, this menu item is disabled.
      • Select Exclude to exclude the mechanism.
        Note: If the selected mechanism is already disassembled, this menu item is disabled.

The assembly of mechanisms is created in the tree under the Mechanism node .

For more information about Tree icons, see Tree.