Creating the Smart Component and its Skeleton

You can make an indirect connection with a skeleton. A skeleton is a set of surfaces created on the smart component that actually participates in the engineering connection. Therefore, to create the smart component, you need the component and its skeleton.

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Creating Indirect Connections
  1. Create a physical product.
  2. Within the part body, create the smart component.
    Smart Component

  3. Insert a 3D shape representation within the product.
  4. Name this 3D shape representation as Skeleton.
  5. Within the 3D shape representation, create two ordered geometrical sets, and name them MI_1 and MI_2, respectively.
  6. Within each ordered geometrical set, create a surface for the instantiation of the template.
    Two Surface are Created on the Smart Component within the Skeleton