Smart Move with Viewer

You can move a component and create a coincidence constraint between two axes in an engineering connection.

Before you begin: open an assembly.
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Smart Move
Engineering Connections

  1. Select Jack_Branch_3 then Jack_Branch_1 in the specification tree.

    Important:

    In an flexible assembly, the first select component must be repositionable.

  2. Click Smart Move icon and expand the Smart Move dialog box, including the viewer that appears.


    • The Viewer frame: this window appears only if you pre-select the components affected to perform the smart move. These components must belong to the same parent component. Using the viewer allows you to select with more accuracy the geometrical element to be moved and constrained. In the viewer window you can move and rotate the component regardless of its position the geometry window. The viewer do not forbid the selection of the geometrical element in the geometry window.
    • The Automatic constraint creation option allows you to create constraints to keep the move operation.
    • The Fix Component command allows you to prevent the current component from moving from its parents during the update operation.
    • The Quick Constraint frame contains the list of the constraints that can be set. This list displays these constraints in a hierarchical order and can be edited by using both arrows to right of the dialog box.



  3. Select the Automatic constraint creation option.

    The application creates the first possible constraint as specified in the list of constraints having priority. For more about this list, please refer to Quick Constraint.

  4. Select the face of Jack_Branch_3 as shown in the dialog box.

  5. Click Next component.

  6. Select the face of Jack_Branch_1 as shown in the dialog box.

    The engineering connection is created and contains a contact constraint.



  7. Click OK to confirm and quit the command.