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Top-Down and Sheet Metal Parts Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2018

I Activity: MOTHERBOARD-Insert Component

Create the MOTHERBOARD component.

11 O) The BOX assembly is the open document. Click New Part from the Elf$ ~ -

Consolidated Insert Components toolbar as illustrated. Insert Mate (on1pon
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Components P•eview Wi

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Select the Part Template. rb($ Insert Components

111) Double-click PART-MM-ANSI from the MY-TEMPLATES tab in the ~ New Part

New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box. The new part is ~ New Assembly

displayed in the FeatureManager design tree with a name in ~ Copy wit h Mates

the form [PartnAassembly_name]. The square brackets

indicate that the part is a virtual component. The new - ~ [E·I-~ . $ I ~ I >

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Component pointer ~" icon is displayed.

~ BOX (Default<Display State-1 > >I

• &s'J History

The default component is empty and requires a Sketch plane.
lfl] Sensors

The Front Plane of the default component is mated with the • IA] Annotations

Front Plane of the BOX. • [fJ Equations

[P Front Plane

[P Top Plane

Select the Sketch plane for the default component. [P Right Plane

112) Click Front Plane in the BOX assembly FeatureManager. l.. Origin

L Layout

113) Expand the new inserted component [Part1 ABOX] in the hf~ [ Part1ABOX]<1> (Default<<Default 0

FeatureManager. The FeatureManager is displayed in light • 00 Mates in BOX

blue. ~ -I History

ITIJ Sensors

• IA) Annotations

Components added In-Context of the assembly automatically

[fl Equations

received an InPlace Mate within the Mates entry in the o-
~=ii Material <not specified>

FeatureManager and under the component. [P Front Plane

[P Top Plane

[P Right Plane
The InPlace mate is a Coincident mate between

l.. Origin
the Front Plane of the [Partl ;\BOX] component L. (-) Sketch1

and the Front Plane of the BOX. • ®@ Mates

The [Partl ;\BOX] entry is added to the

F eatureManager. The system automatically

selects the Edit Component ~ mode.

J_ls SOLIDWORKS File Edit View Insert Tools Window

The [Partl ;\BOX] text is displayed in blue to ~ 'a($ ~ ~ Cl CJ
CJ[a

Edit 1""'- Insert Mate Component Linear Compon
indicate that the component is actively being Com pone:;. Components Preview Window Pattern

... ...
edited. The current Sketch plane is the Front r r I

Ass/edit C~mpone~t JDWORKS Add-
Plane. The system automatically selects the
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Toggles between editing a part or a

subassembly and the main assembly.
Sketch (_ icon.

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