Options: Assembly

 

 

 

 

 

This section allows to modify the assembly behavior.

 

Creation stages / Use:

 

Click the icon or select the Tools > Options... command from the drop-down menu.

 

  1. Select the Assembly section from the column on the left.

  2. Select one of these 4 sub-sections:

- General

- Extruded Bars

- In Place Editing

- Parts Operation

 

 

 

Available options:

 

 

  • Length measure:

Allows to choose if the length for profile during measures is on axis or overall or extended.

  • Trimming angle measure:

Allow to choose the trimming angle measure method. The Angle mode is the old mode (before TopSolid 7.9 SP7), the new mode is now Angles and Orientations and is set by default. To activate this option for old assemblies, just regenerate them.

  • Show posterior context when editing in-place part:

By activating this option, it is possible to visualize in wireframe mode, the elements that have been created after the part that is being edited.

 It is possible to use this wireframe elements to build new geometry of the edited part, but there is no associativity.

  • Allow to customize editing context render mode:

During in-place editing, the user can switch the display of neighboring parts to both wireframe mode and shading mode as well as the transparency of the editing context.

  • Editing context transparency

This option allows to change the transparency of editing context. Like that, the parts in the background in the editing context will be more or less visible.

  • Edit in-place part before its inclusion:

This option allows to automatically position the insertion cursor before the inclusion when in-place editing.

  • Edit in-place on double click:

This option allows edit in-place a part or sub-assembly by double clicking on it in the assembly document.

 

  • Show process dialog after inclusion:

Including a part or a sub-assembly into an assembly file, in case of the element references only one process document then the process is used automatically. With this option, the process dialog appears before its use (can be useful if you want to use the manual mode of the process).

  • Process repetition:

- Assembly: The process is repeated in the assembly. The part contains as many basic operations as numbers of repetition occurrences.

- Parts: The process is repeated in the part. The part contains the basic operation and its repetition. The repeat options of the part document are then available, including the Fast mode.

- Show dialog: The dialog box for selecting the process repeat mode appears after the component is repeated.