The FeatureManager
Design Tree in an Assembly
FeatureManager Design Tree Conventions
The FeatureManager
design tree displays these items for assemblies:
Top-level assembly (the first item)
Various
folders, for example, Annotations
and Mates
Assembly planes and origin
Components (sub-assemblies and individual parts)
Assembly features (cuts or holes) and component
patterns
You can expand or collapse each component to view its details by clicking
beside the component name. To collapse all the items
in the tree, right-click anywhere in the tree and select Collapse
Items.
You can use the same component multiple times within an assembly. For
each occurrence of the component in the assembly, the suffix <n>is incremented.
In the FeatureManager design tree, a component name can have a prefix
that provides information about the state of its relationships to other
components. The prefixes are:
(-) under defined
(+) over defined
(f) fixed
(?) not solved
The absence of a prefix indicates that the component’s position is fully
defined. See Mate
Errors for information about mate symbols and error messages.
Display of Components
Sometimes you want to focus on the structure or hierarchy of the design
rather than the details of the sketches and features. In addition, you
might want to focus on the design of the assembly without viewing all
of the features of the components.
Each of these ways of viewing the assembly affects only the level of
detail displayed in the FeatureManager design tree, not the assembly itself.
To display the assembly hierarchy:
-
Right-click the assembly name in the
FeatureManager design tree, and select Show
Hierarchy Only.
The FeatureManager design tree displays
only the components (both parts and sub-assemblies), but no lower level
detail.
To display the detail
again, repeat the procedure, selecting Show
Feature Detail.
To view an assembly by dependencies:
-
To display the dependencies, right-click the assembly name in the
FeatureManager design tree and select Tree
Display, View Mates and Dependencies
or click View, FeatureManager
Tree, By
Dependencies.
Dependent items (instead of features) are listed under each component.
Dependent items include mates and component patterns. To view a component's
features and planes, expand the Features
folder under the component.
To display the features again, right-click the
assembly name in the FeatureManager design tree and select Tree
Display, View Features
or click View, FeatureManager
Tree, By
Features.
Related Topics
Component
Icons in the FeatureManager Design Tree
Mate
Icons in the FeatureManager Design Tree
Component
Mates
FeatureManager
Options
Filtering
the FeatureManager Design Tree
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