Same part in different positions in an assemby

How do I represent a part in two different positions in the same
assembly? E.g. (1) Full open door and (2) Closed door? Do I use
configurations? How? Do I use display states? How?
Thank you for your help!

 

Try creating two configurations in your assembly. Apply mate features
to locate the part where you want it in each configuration, and
suppress the mates that you don't want from the other configuration.
Sounds like you might get some ideas from searching the help topics or
going through the tutorials.

Cheers, Dom.

 

You can also set up limit mates. Using limit mates with
configurations may offer the most flexibility.

Matt Lorono
http://sw.fcsuper.com
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Look up "Alternative Position View" in the SW help file.

This allows you to create a view of the assembly in the closed
position and a phantom outlined view of the door in the open position.

Len

 

Also sometimes I do a repeat, when I need to evaluate the impact of both
positions.

 

We'll do it one of two ways. One is with a configuration putting the
part/parts in a different position. This way is not always possible if
you have incontext features in this part or off of this part. The other
way is to drop a second part into the assembly and move it to the other
position. Then in the assembly make that part to "Exclude from BOM" and
then hide or show these parts necessary to show the two positions using
display states/configurations for the alternate positions. Then in the
drawing you can create an alternate position view within your drawing views.