Smart Move

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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About Smart Move
Smart Move with Viewer
Engineering Connections

  1. Click Smart Move icon and click More>> the Smart Move dialog box that appears.

    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.



  2. Check the Automatic constraint creation.

    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.

  3. Select the axis of Jack_Branch_1 as shown:



    Important:

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

  4. Select the axis of Jack_Branch_3.



    Instead of explicitly selecting both axes, you can select the axis of Jack_Branch_1 and then drop it onto the blue inner cylinder face when your cursor points to this face.The application detects a possible constraint between the axes. As the option Create constraint is on, the application can set a coincidence constraint between both axes.



  5. Click the green arrow to reverse the direction of the component.



  6. Click OK to confirm, create the engineering connection and quit the command.

    The engineering connection is created and contains a coincidence constraint.