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Editing components inserted from a library |
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After a component from a library is inserted into a model, you may need to edit it.
•If the inserted component does not have external variables, to modify it you should edit the source model in the library.
Updating inserts (both from libraries and models from disk) occurs automatically when you open the main document.
•If external variables exist in the component inserted from the library, then to change its dimensions and topology you should edit the values of these variables (see section Variables of models).
If, in addition to external variables, there is a table of variables in the library component, you can select a new set of variable values from the table. To open the table of variables, use the Table of Variables command in the context menu of the library component in the Tree.
Sometimes after editing variables of a model, it is marked in the Design Tree as erroneous. This means that such values of external variables are entered which makes the system of equations linking the model variables unsolvable. To correct the error, edit the variable values again.
•In addition, you can replace a component from the library with a component from the disk (change the source for inserting the model).
To change the source for inserting the component, select it in the Design Tree and invoke the Component Properties context menu command. In the Parameter Panel, expand the Source section and click the Source File button to the right of the field with the current source file name. In the standard file opening dialog that appears, select the desired model document.
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A library part component can be replaced only with a part, an assembly component can be replaced only with an assembly. |
The selected model will be inserted into the current model instead of the library component while maintaining the position of the insertion point. The component icon from the library in the Design Tree will disappear, in its place an icon of a part or subassembly will appear.
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If the model has objects derived from a library component (for example, an auxiliary axis was drawn through one of its vertices, or a part was built in the context of assembly on one of the library model's faces), then when replacing the source of insertion of the model, all the links arising from creating derived objects will be destroyed and errors will occur in the model. Therefore, before changing the source of insertion of a model, review the relations of that model to determine which derived elements it has. |
