Create In Place Assembly

In Place Assembly

This command allows to create an in place assembly in order to group several in place parts achieved in an assembly, in a new subassembly, called an in place assembly. This allows you to reorganize an in place design in order to identify a subassembly that will have it's own designation. For example, an assembly with 3 parts P1, P2 and P3. The In place assembly A2 allows to group P1 and P2 in a sub-assembly which is created in the main assembly without creating before this sub-assembly A2 and without having to include it. Then the main assembly be composed of A2+P3.

Creation stages / Use:

Click the icon or select Modeling > In place assembly... command from the drop-down menu.

Select the different parts nd/or repetitions to include.
Validate.
Select an assembly template.
Validate.

Parts and sub-assemblies not made in place in the in place subassembly may be inserted in an in place assembly.
Include a repetition allows to automatically update the In place assembly if the number of instances of the repetition is modified and therefor occurrences are added or deleted.

To be able to include a part in a in place assembly, it must be at least in the detailed representation.
A piping line can be inserted in an in place assembly.
Non rigid subsets (on which there are degrees of freedom) cannot be inserted into an in place set.
In the projects tree, the in place assembly can be found by unrolling the assembly in which it has been created.
When you declare an in place sub-assembly in a mechanism, if all constituents are in the same rigid group, the in place assembly is added in the same rigid group. If one of its constituent isn't in any rigid group or if they are not in same rigid group, the in place assembly will not be included in any rigid group and you will have to do it manually.

Available options:

Hide:

Selected entities are hided while the command is used in order to select other entities more easily.

Include original instance:

If an existing repetition is selected, this box allows to include or not the original instance of the repetition.

Modifications / Additional information:

You can open the In Place Assembly document, draft it, insert it in another assembly, ...
To add or remove parts of the in place assembly, simply edit the inclusion.