About Assembly Features

Before you begin with assembly features, you should be familiar with the concepts described in this section.

Assembly feature allows you to create hole, added, protected feature and cut in an assembly.

Assembly feature in the specification tree:

  • Under the active product, either an existing representation can be reused or a typed-specification representation can be created .

    This representation will contain the different 3D shape features involved in assembly features, in Solid Functional Set of a functional body : Hole, Protected Feature, Split, Add.

    This representation will be enriched with assembly features created in this active product.

  • Under the active product a node Assembly Features is created, containing the assembly features: Assembly Hole, Assembly Added, Assembly Protected, Assembly Split.
  • Under the representation of affected products, a solid linked to the assembly feature is created .
Important:

Creation or modification of an Assembly Feature is only displayed after the PLM update.