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Creating Assemblies
In this chapter, you learn how to create parts and assemblies in place, about adaptive parts,
patterns, assembly features, and other procedures for managing assemblies.
Creating Assembly Components
Assembly modeling combines the strategies of placing existing components in
an assembly, and creating other components in place within the context of the
assembly. In a typical modeling process, some component designs are known
and some standard components are used, but new designs must also be created
to meet specific objectives.
Parts In Place
Use the Create Component tool to create a component in an assembly. When
creating an in-place component, you sketch on the face of an existing assembly
component or a work plane, a sketch plane in the camera view of the main
assembly, or you can place the sketch plane normal to the view with the origin
at a selected point. On the Create In-Place Component dialog box, you can
choose an option to automatically constrain the sketch plane to the selected
face or work plane.
When you specify the location for the sketch, the new part immediately becomes
active, and the browser, panel bar, and toolbars switch to the part environment.
The Sketch tools are available to create the first sketch of your new part. Edges
and features of existing components can be selected as reference geometry for
sketching.
Most components are created in relation to existing components in the assembly.
Optionally, you can click the graphics window background to define the current
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