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Assembly Design
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introduction
The first section of this manual will involve inserting, creating, and replacing documents
and other components in the assembly design. Those documents can be a variety of things
including parts and other assemblies.
Inserting Documents
All of the assemblies created in this first section will not need to have constraints added to
properly position them. The first assembly that will be built is a basic hand drill.
Start a new product document.
This can be accomplished by selecting the new icon and
selecting product. You need to make sure you are in the assembly design workbench before
continuing. To switch to the assembly design workbench select the change workbench icon
and then select assembly design.
One of the most important ideas to keep in mind with assembly design is that all parts must
have an unique id. The assembly should also have an unique id, especially if it is going to
be used as a sub-assembly.
Using the third mouse button select Product1. This will bring up the contextual menu for
Product1.
Select Properties and then the Product Tab. This is where various information about the
assembly, as well as individual parts can be stored. Filling in all of the information is not
necessary, but can become quite useful to a down stream user. For now, the Part Number is
the only field that will be changed, but feel free to fill in any of the other fields.
Replacing and Creating New Parts
This exercise will be a continuation of the previous exercise. If the document is not already
opened, it will need to be opened before beginning this exercise. In many instances it is
necessary to change a part of an assembly because of optional designs that could be used
with that assembly. This exercise will cover how to replace components with other
components without having to recreate the entire assembly. In the case of the hand drill
there are multiple options that are available such as a different case, drill chuck and drill bit
that could be used on this assembly. Instead of creating a new assembly for every option,
you will learn how to replace each component in order to show the different options of the
design.