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When designing products, it may be required to use a large number of standard parts or assemblies. These are fastening parts (bolts, nuts, screws, washers), bearings, switches, connectors, etc.
When editing drawings, it may be required to select, move or rotate these parts as single entities, because it would be too inconvenient and cumbersome to process each object individually. In addition, some elements of the standard part picture should not be available for editing.
For this, when working in KOMPAS-3D, various drawing objects – geometric objects, dimensions, hatches, designations, and others – can be combined into macro-elements.
The objects to be merged into a macro-element should belong to the same viewing drawing.
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Macro-elements cannot contain objects of the associative views that preserve the associations with the models. |
All objects within a macro-element represent a single object, they are selected, deleted or edited as a single entity (except for modifying style or leader).
To access individual objects within a macro-element you can explode or edit the macro-element. After exploding, all associations between the objects from the macro-element are discarded. When editing the macro-element, you can perform various actions with its objects without breaking the associations, and add new objects to the macro-element.
An macro-element may be complemented by leader lines, which become its constituent parts. This object is processed by the system as a single entity: it is selected, moved and deleted as a whole.
Images of standard products, inserted from libraries KOMPAS-3D, are macro-elements. You can create custom application libraries of macro-elements. You can also set macro-element properties (weight, power, cost per liner meter, etc.). By to the properties Macro-elements, inserted into the drawing, can be automatically generated reports KOMPAS-3D.
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Examples of the library macro-elements
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