Smart Mechanical Components: General

Component Specifications

Select the desired options:

Display 3D icon

Attaches an icon representing the expected component type to the Component Specification.

By default, Display 3D icon is selected.

Display Information on overfly and Display free status on overfly

Manage the display of information when placing the cursor over a Component Specification.

Clearing the check boxes prevents the display of the information, thus improves performances.

By default, Display Information on overfly is selected and Display free status on overfly is cleared.

Hide Populated Component Specifications

Hides Component Specifications once they have been populated.

By default, Hide populated Anchor is selected.

Skeleton Behavior

Select the desired option:

Create Interface Skeleton for Impacts

Creates Interface Skeletons to allow design inside sub-assemblies with impacts on external products (for example the Ejection Side), without loading the full product structure up to the root product (for example the Mold Base product). In other words, Interface Skeletons provide an added value when the designer of a sub-assembly impacted by external products does not have access to the full product structure (security rights or supplier).

Notes:

• This option applies to Mobile Unit, Mold Base and Structured Component.
• To keep the structure simple, do not activate this option when one single user is working on an assembly.
• The status of this option cannot be changed in the middle of the design process. For example, you cannot clear it to delete the Interface Skeletons during the process.

By default, Create Interface Skeleton for Impacts is not selected.

Create Skeletons as 3D Shapes

Applies to commands that create Skeletons automatically (not Add > Content nor Insert commands).

• When this check box is not selected, the commands create Skeletons.
• When this check box is selected, the commands create 3D Shape Skeletons.

By default, Create Skeletons as 3D Shapes is selected.

Define Assembly Feature in Skeleton

Applies to Define Component with an Assembly.

• When this check box is not selected, the Assembly Features are created under each sub-component.
• When this check box is selected, and when a Skeleton exists, the Assembly Features are created under the Skeleton.

  The Skeleton can be a Tooling Skeleton (Representation or 3D part) or a Component Based design Skeleton.

  The advantages are:

  • The sub-components are not modified, they can be in Read Only.
  • You can manage impacts without loading the sub-components.

By default, Define Assembly Feature in Skeleton is not selected.

Placement Component Behavior

Select the desired options:

Filter on Type

Activates the filtering on type when selecting the components to place, using either PLM Search or a catalog browser.

By default, Filter on Type is cleared.

Filter on Dimensions

Activates the filtering on dimensions when selecting the components to place, using either PLM Search or a catalog browser.

Note: Apply a filter on types before applying one on dimensions.

By default, Filter on Dimensions is cleared.

Define Component during Place Component

Enables you to both place an undefined V5 Tooling component and define it as Smart Mechanical components in one shot.

By default, Define Component during Place Component is not selected.

Design Structured Component in Context

Enable Design in the Context of the Assembly

Defines what happens when you pick one sub-component of a structured component, that is an assembly of sub-components.

• Select this check box for a standard assembly behavior, that is to:
  • Select only the sub-component you pick.
  • Insert a sub-component under the structured component.
  • Move a sub-component independently.
  • Delete a sub-component.
  • Take the Assembly Features of the sub-component into account when computing impacts.
• When this check box is cleared:
  • The whole structured component is selected when you pick one sub-component.
    Note: However, the name of the sub-component is displayed in the context menu, not that of the whole structured component.
  • You cannot move individual sub-components.
  • Delete applies to the whole structured component.
  • The computation of impacts takes the Assembly Features defined at the level of the structured component into account.

  Warning: Place Component behaves as follows: When started from the context toolbar, you cannot insert any component under the structured component. When started from the action bar, you can insert one single component, or the first among several.

By default, Enable Design in the Context of the Assembly is selected.

Component Impacts

Selecting or clearing the check boxes below affects performances while creating impacts.

Automatic Update after Impacts computation

Clear this check box to avoid starting an update after each impact computation, thus reducing computation time.

By default, Automatic Update after Impacts computation is selected.

Activate Technological Results after Impacts computation

This check box is equivalent to the context command from the tree. Clearing the check box reduces computation time.

By default, Activate Technological Results after Impacts computation is not selected.

Optimize grouping of Solid Impacts into Bodies

Select this check box to create and assemble the solid impacts under a single Solid Impact Body for a quicker creation.

Notes:

• This check box does not support Create Interface Skeleton for Impacts nor the creation of solid impacts outside a PartBody.
• It does not apply to existing solid impacts.

By default, Create solid impacts in one Body is selected.

Graphic Properties

Select the required check box to manage the way Plates Transparencyworks.

Apply Plates transparency of Product only

The transparency status is modified at the product level.

Apply Plates transparency on solid features and faces

The transparency status of the solid features and faces is modified.

Note: Make sure Force edit mode to apply Plates transparency is selected. Otherwise, transparency will be applied only to Plates containing a representation in edit mode.

By default, Apply Plates transparency of Product only is selected.