Creating PowerCopies

You can create powercopy elements from functional features. A powercopy is a set of features (geometric elements, formulas, constraints and so forth) that are grouped in order to be used in a different context, and presenting the ability to be completely redefined when pasted.

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Instantiating PowerCopies
More about PowerCopies

  1. Select Insert > Knowledge Templates > Power Copy...

    The PowerCopy Definition dialog box appears.

  2. From the specification tree, select the elements to be included in the Powercopy.

    Important: we strongly recommend you locate all required functional and GSD features within functional sets prior to generating powercopies.

    In our example, select the three parameters, all the formulas and Functional Set.1 to select the cutouts of our geometry.





    The PowerCopy Definition dialog box is automatically filled with information about the selected elements.



  3. Define the PowerCopy as you wish to create it: for details about all options, see More about PowerCopies. Click the Parameters tab.

    This tab allows you to define which of the parameter values used in the PowerCopy you will be able to modify at instantiation time.

  4. Double-click the three parameters to make them public.

    The Published option is then selected for each of them, indicating that the parameters can be modified at instantiation time.



  5. Click OK to create the PowerCopy.

    The PowerCopy.1 node is displayed in the specification tree, just below the Relations node.