Assembly Features

This reference describes Assembly Feature behaviors in assembly document and their Resulting Features in part document.
 

Visualization Mode
  According to the Access to geometry option, part documents in Visualization Mode affected by an Assembly Feature swap automatically or not to the Design Mode:
 
  • If the Automatic switch to Design mode option is checked:
    • Assembly feature creation: selected part documents swap automatically from Visualization Mode to the Design Mode to create it.
    • Assembly feature edition: affected part documents swap automatically from Visualization Mode to the Design Mode to edit it.
    • Assembly feature deletion: affected part documents swap automatically from Visualization Mode to the Design Mode to delete it.
 
  • If the Automatic switch to Design mode option is unchecked or if the part document is unloaded:
    • Assembly feature creation: selected part documents are not modified.
    • Assembly feature edition: affected part documents cannot be modified.
    • Assembly feature deletion: the Assembly Feature is deleted in the assembly document, but not the Resulting Features in the affected part documents. The Broken mask appears on the specification tree Resulting Features icons, when the part is be loaded.
 

Links of Resulting Features
  In Part Design context:
  • The Edit > Links... command show the links of the part's Resulting Features.
  • The Parent/Children... command on a Resulting Feature show the Assembly Feature link.

If the link is broken, the Broken mask appears on the specification tree icons.
 

Isolate Resulting Features
  To edit, copy, paste or delete a Resulting Feature, you must isolate it before these operation. In this case the resulting Feature behavior is the same as its Part feature equivalent. Take care that you cannot reconnect an isolated Resulting Feature.
 

Design in Context
  Assembly features are always design in context and the Keep link with selected object option lets you maintain the links between external references only:
  • If you wish to isolate a resulting feature, run the Isolate contextual command.
  • If you wish to create a feature on only one part, edit the part directly.

See Design in Assembly Context for more information.