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Topsolid Progress online Help Index
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Create
Icon Access: 
Menu Access:
Progressive die | Components | Create
Description:
Positioning a TopSolid'Progress standard component.
General procedure:
Use the dialog box to choose the template of the component to be positioned.
Click on the different zones of the image below
Position the component.
Determine the constraints for dimensioning the component.
Enter the values of the driver parameters.
Choose the component reference that you want. You can modify the drivers that you have already chosen.
Click on the different zones of the image below
Choose the repetition mode that you want.
If necessary, you can choose to continue with the same component or select another one.
You can modify the component that you have positioned, for example, to change its machining.
In the specific case of springs, there is information about their properties.
Available option(s):
OTHER KIND OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS allows to select an existing coordinate system position. You can position the component directly in DYNAMIC mode or not. COORDINATE SYSTEM ON FACE AND AXIS ELEMENT creates a coordinate system on a face, whose origin is a POINT, or the projection of a component axis or the z axis of a coordinate system on the selected face.
Determine
the constraints: You can fill
in several dimensioning constraints:
Length constraints: you can define them by selecting a face or a shape. You can use the dropdown menu below to choose this option:
Use MANUAL to numerically determine the constraint value.
Choose IGNORE to position the component without entering these constraint values.
Fill in the diameter constraints by selecting a reference component.
The questions asked will depend on the expected constraint.
Determine
the pilot parameters: You can
enter several pilots:
depth,
The shoulder screw stroke,
Die clearance, etc.
REPEAT
selects the repetition mode of the component.
CONTINUE
positions another component. You can position the same component by choosing
Use same component = YES.
MODIFY COMPONENT
re-opens the component modification box,
with access to the processes of this box, allowing you to change it.
Particular Remarks:
The
components are created automatically with their process if the automatic process activated/desactivated
is enabled. The clearances on these processes are those defined
by the ISO standard. They can be configured with the Configuration
option
.
The
questions asked by the application will vary depending of the component
selected: a screw will have to know its positioning point and the last
element to fix, for example. A bushing will need a positioning face and
know the reference column. This will allow you to choose the correct reference.
You
can restore the positioning mode of the previous TopSolid'Progress version,
by customizing the positioning context of components with Tools | Customize.
Possible modification(s):
Using the change 
function on the component will
allow you to:
MODIFY COMPONENT takes you to the change component box.
MODIFY PROCESS OPERATIONS allows you to change or delete each of the processes created when you position the component:
Choose the operation to modify with the dropdown menu below:
MODIFY OPERATION takes you to the TopSolid drill change box.
EXTRACT OPERATION extracts the selected operation.
QUIT takes you to the previous menu.
UPDATE PROCESS regenerates processes linked to the component.
DELETE PROCESSES allows you to extract all the processes associated with the component. Choosing this option will enable you CREATE PROCESSES.
>> will allow you to access the standard TopSolid changes of the component:
AUXILIARY ELEMENTS for adding or deleting auxiliary elements (TopSolid loads the template document to select these elements).
ATTRIBUTES changes the attributes of the component.
- COMPONENT or component-driven: this mode uses the current attributes at the time the component is inserted. The attributes can then be changed by the entire component.
- LIKE TEMPLATE or template-driven: this mode allows you to keep the template attributes (of the definition document). If you change the attributes of the component template, the component attributes will also be changed.
- MANUAL or initial template values: this mode uses the attributes of the component template. You can then change these attributes on the elements resulting from the insertion, shape by shape if it concerns a sub-assembly, for example. If you change the attributes of the component template, the component attributes will not be changed.
Examples of component positioning:
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