Assembly Contraints

Dear All
I have a assembly named::::: ABC.sldasm In this 20 sldprts have been
assembled.
Now, I want to know what are the constraints used in assemblying a
particular part. Pls. note that I don't want to show the contraints
used by it's child or parent parts...BUt want to show / know ONLY
contraints used in assemblying that particular part. At this point I
am in a middle of the assembly

Is there any way to know only those contraints which were used in
assembling that particular part...
thanks in advance
Kuntal Jain
(India)

 

Dear All

Just to mention some of the many ways: you could, for example, right-click
that particular component and select View Mates from the pop-up menu. If you
are using SW2004, you could expand that particular component from FM tree
and peek inside the Mates.. folder. Or turn the FM tree to View Dependencies
mode (search for help for details).

Hope this helps!

-h-

 

Sounds like you are familiar with ProE and wish to evaluate mates in the
same manner that ProE does. Am I correct?

Due to SWX's non-hierarchal assembly method, it is difficult or even
impossible for the software to figure out which constraints really
locate a component.

As others have stated, the closest thing to what you want is to right
click on the component and choose view mates (or expand the tree in
2004).

 

Here are a few other ways,

Highligt the part that particular part and then open up the property manager
and You'll see those mates which are holding this piece in place. If You
highlight also the part it's contrained to ..... and then open the property
manager, You'll see the actual mates between these two parts in bold text.

Krister L

 

Dear Mike...
Exactly that is what I was looking for.. & needs some solution to find
out which were the exact contraints which were used to assemble a
particular component in an assembly..For your information I am working
in 2003 version of Solid Works & am a good user of Proe
Thanks
kjain

 

I believe that mates folder in the expanded feature tree is new to
SWX2004.

You can get the same results in 2003 in a couple of different ways:
1.) Right click on the first item in the feature tree and select 'View
Dependencies'
2.) Right click on a part in the feature manager tree or in the graphics
window and select 'View Mates'

These methods just are not quire as handy as the new 2004 method (the
2003 methods can still be used).