More about Dressup

The dressup capability involves specifying which products in a mechanism are fixed to products in a model (dressing parts) using multiple rigid engineering connections that are created automatically. See Engineering Connections for more information.

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Defining a Dressup for a Mechanism
Mechanism product
A product in a mechanism that is impacted by a regular engineering connection visible under the Joints node. See Engineering Connection Definition for more information.
Attached product
A product (dressing part) rigidly connected to a product in the mechanism using the Dressup function.
Non-impacted product
A product that is neither a mechanism product nor an attached product.
Rigid engineering connections in the specification tree
Multiple engineering connections are created when using the dressup function. By default, rigid engineering connections appear under the Dressup node as long as they connect a product in the mechanism to a product in the model (that is an attached product). If you include a new engineering connection in the mechanism (using the Mechanism Manager) that impacts a product in the model that was previously attached to a mechanism, then the rigid connection appears under the Joints node and is removed from the Dressup node. Similarly, if you exclude an engineering connection from the mechanism, a rigid joint that was created using the Dressup function may no longer be connected to a mechanism product. In this situation, the rigid engineering connection is excluded from the mechanism—it appears only under the Engineering Connections node.