Connecting Devices by Drag and Drop
at Placement

This task explains how to place devices by drag and drop with automatic connection to an existing component.
Open a new product document.

  1. Click Catalog Browser to open the ElecIntegration.catalog.

    The full path is:
    .../online/cfysm_C2/samples/ElectricalIntegration\ElecIntegration.catalog

    The dialog box opens on Chapter.1.

    If necessary, use Open to browse another catalog and select the ElecIntegration.catalog from the samples folder.

    To know more about the Catalog workbench, refer to Using Catalogs.

  2. Double-click the Equipments: the folder contents displays.

  3. Select the Battery 6volts, drag and drop it onto the Product1 in the specification tree.

    The equipment is imported.
  4. Select Connectors as Current folder, then

  5. Select the Connector_F1, drag and drop it onto the cavity.

    The connector is properly located into the cavity: the constraints are created.
    The result looks like this:
    The component is instantiated under the active product.
  6. Close the Catalog Browser.

Note that  when you insert a device into a product, you can take advantage of CATIA - Assembly capabilities to constrain the device within the digital mock-up, profiting therefore by the associativity. For more information, refer to Using Assembly Constraints.