The Engineering Templates app lets you efficiently create the operations that
duplicate and reference database components (such as products, simulations, or parts). It
enables the reuse of pre-existing components through adaptation mechanisms, enabling them to
fit new purposes within a predefined scope. For example, users can create an aluminum
beverage container using different cans and pull-ring components (parts). Engineering
templates are similar to User Defined Feature and Power Copy functions, but operate on a
larger scale:
- Engineering templates run based on a list of user-defined components such as
Duplicate/Replace/Keep. The user describes the action to perform during instantiation
for each duplicated root.
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Inputs are interactively
selected to implement new components within the new context, for example, replacing a
point feature that represents the origin of a global coordinate system.
- Parameters of duplicated components can be exposed so their value is changed on
instantiation.
- Whole components can be Replaced on instantiation.