Creating External References

From the Assembly section of the action bar, click Isolate External References

to enable the creation of external reference.

The command name changes to External Reference

.

From the Sketch section of the action bar, click Rectangle

and sketch a rectangle in the work area.

From the Features section of the action bar, click Extrude

and create extrude from the rectangle.

In the Design Manager tree, select the Extrude that you have created.

From the context toolbar, click Make Component

.

Alternatively, from the Assembly section of the action bar, click Make Component .

From the Sketch section of the action bar, select Create or Edit Sketch

.

In the work area, select the face on extrude as a reference.

From the Sketch section of the action bar, click Center Circle

and sketch a circle on the selected face.

From the Features section of the action bar, click Extrude

to apply material to the circle.

In the tree, the External References node is created. The node lists all the external references in the product structure.

In the above example, the face that you have used as a reference to sketch a circle is listed under this node.

Note: Disabling the External References

command before adding an external geometry in the active product creates isolated external references.