Add From Catalog

Options and Results

Add a component from the Catalog to the assembly / sub-assembly.

Notes:

• When adding parts, connections that are created automatically will be written only under the added part.

• Undo operations are available after adding a component.

Required Step 1

The Catalog is displayed in the Cimatron E Explorer. Select a component from the Cimatron E Explorer.

Required Step 2

Place the component. The following options are displayed:

Decide on how to place the added component.

Placing options

The following placing options are available:

Place by Pick
Place by UCS
Place on Face

With each of these options, a number of sub-options are displayed. The sub-options Edit Parameters and Same Component / Different Components appear in all of the options. If multiple instances of a component are added, the Group Control option is available in Place by UCS and Place on Face, enabling you to have Group or Individual control over the parameters of each instance).

Place by Pick

1. Select Place by Pick and pick the position to place the component.

2. The component is added.

Place by UCS

1. Select Place by UCS and pick the UCS on which to place the component.

2. The component is added.

Place on Face

1. Select Place on Face.

2. Pick the face on which to place the component. The Place on Face options are displayed.

3. There are two groups of options, toggled by pressing By Sketch or By Points (the default option is By Sketch, however, the last option used is displayed - if you used the By Points option in the last Place on Face operation, then By Points is displayed):

By Sketch

1. Pick a sketch entity upon which to place the component.
   Set the With Cut / Without Cut toggle option, if it is displayed.

Notes:

• The sketch must contain at least one point.

• The sketch must be within the part that the face is selected from.

• The sketch can either be created in the part before using the Add From Catalog function or a new sketch can be created by pressing Create Sketch (the new sketch is created on the selected face).

• If a new sketch is created, the component is added at the point(s) in the sketch. When you exit the Sketcher, the Create Sketch option changes to Edit Sketch, enabling you to edit your new sketch.

The component is added to all the points that were created in the same sketch feature in the original part. In the example below, two diagonal points were created in the same sketch feature, causing more than one instance of the component to be added (this, in turn, causes the Group Control option to become available, which enables you to have Group or Individual control over the parameters of each instance).

By Points

1. Pick a point upon which to place the component. The reference point must be on the same component as the selected face.
   Notice that the XY parameters are displayed when the cursor is moved.
   These XY parameters jump in the amount defined in the Grid parameter.
   Set the With Cut / Without Cut toggle option, if it is displayed.

The usual point entities can be selected, for example:

2. When a point is picked, the component is added.

Notice that the XY parameters are displayed in a dialog. These are the Dimension Boxes.

Edit Parameters

Edit Parameters enables you to select a different set of pre-defined component parameters from the Catalog parameter table.

Edit Parameters Example

Press exit when finished. Press OK or Apply in the Feature Guide to complete the function.

Optional Step 1

Set the offset and rotation parameters. Press Flip to rotate the added component by 180 degrees.

The following options are available:

Optional Step 2

Select a UCS on the added component to position the component.

In active parts exported using the function Export Mold Components, the active UCS is automatically created according to the machining direction. This is suitable when using the Add Active Parts function in the MoldDesign application. However, when adding a part to an assembly (using the Add Component or Add From Catalog functions), use the option Using Model UCS to ensure that the parts are placed as they were created, in the correct position. The default option is Using Active UCS.

The following options are available:

Using Active UCS

By default, the Active UCS on the added component is used to position the component.

Using Model UCS

The added component is positioned using its Model UCS.

Select UCS

1. Select a UCS on the added component, by which to position the component.

2. The added component is positioned according to the selected UCS.