Using Smart Positioning

The Smart Positioning option is only available when you are creating an engineering connection.

There are three possibilities to proceed:

• By selecting components in the Specification Tree.
• By selecting published elements.
• By dragging and dropping components on each other.

Each time, all possible solutions are computed from existing published geometries in components:

• By selecting components in the Specification Tree, all solutions are proposed and pre-positioned with transparency.

  The best computed solution appears less transparent and passing the mouse over a solution will hide other solutions.

• By selecting published elements, all solutions are proposed and pre-positioned with transparency once the targeted published element is selected.

  The selected solution appears less transparent and passing the mouse over a solution will hide other solutions.

• The closest solution to the cursor is proposed among those computed, when you move the cursor over the targeted component.

However user is allowed to create a first constraint in order to reduce the number of solution, and when numerous solutions exists the cursor is replaced by a hourglass until that all solutions have been found.

The constraints can be created between the following published elements only:

• Point,
• Line,
• Axis,
• Plane,
• Axis System.

Two constraints types can be created:

• Coincidence between the same type of published element.
• Contact between the same type of published element.

No more than two constraints are created by the Smart Positioning. This does not include a first constraint created by the user.