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Adding Analysis Library Features to a Document

You can add analysis library features to a study in a part or assembly document by dragging the library features from the Analysis Library to the part or assembly document.

To add library features to a study in a part or assembly document:

  1. Open the target part or assembly document.

  2. Activate or create the study in which you want to insert analysis library features.

  3. Click the Design Library tab on the Task Pane.

  4. Select the Analysis Library folder .

  5. Browse to locate the library feature you want to insert.

  6. Select the desired feature from the lower panel, drag it to the document window.

The Library Feature PropertyManager appears.

When you highlight an item in the References group, the corresponding reference highlights in the library preview window.

  1. In the graphics area, select the faces (or other entities such as edges, planes, axis etc) in the part/assembly document that correspond to the faces or other entities highlighted in the preview window.

This defines the library feature in the active study.

As you use library features in the active study, the exclamation marks appearing in the References group change to check marks .

  1. Under Values, click to check Override library values to edit the library values if desired.

  2. Click the Value cell of the feature that you want to modify and type in a new value.

If upper and lower bounds for the feature are predefined, the modified value has to be in this range.

  1. Click .

Note that you have to insert all features in the library into your active study for a successful use of the library.

Related Topics

Analysis Library Features

Creating Analysis Library Features

Deleting Analysis Library Features

Editing Analysis Library Features

References and Values with Analysis Library Features

 



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