Neighboring Assembly

This command allows you, when editing a part in place, to transparently see the neighboring parts that can be pressed.

Creation stages / Use:

Select Assembly > Assembly Neighborhood... from the drop-down menu.

The command is also available from the popup menu of a part.

Select the part on which to define a neighborhood.
Select the parts of the neighborhood.
Validate by clicking .

Note that the creation of a neighborhood synchronizes the part that receives the neighborhood and assembly, therefore creating neighborhoods when it is not really necessary must be avoided in order to limit the global complexity.

Options:

Hide:

The box allow to hide selected entities during the use of the command, to be able to select other entities more easily, especially those who were behind.

Example of use:

In an assembly done by ascent, part "A" should be modified associatively depending on the relative position of part "B" in this assembly. That is, if part "B" changes, or if the relative position of "B" in relation to "A" in the assembly changes, "A" should be updated automatically to take into account the modifications, without having to perform manual modifications on "A". In this case, part "B" must be defined in the neighborhood of part "A".