- 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.
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