Additional

On the Additional tab of the Automatic positioning dialog, you can specify parameters to be considered during the positioning operation.

Available options:

• Identify parts

  If you select this (it is selected by default), the software checks if there are identical structure elements. If 2 identical elements are found, they are assigned the same position. If you clear this option, each structure element is assigned a successive position.

• Assign the same position for assembly and its main part

  If you select this (it is cleared by default), the software assigns the same position to an assembly and its main part.

• Family

  If you select this, the software considers families while checking if an element is identical to other elements in a model. If structure elements belong to different families, these structure elements will be ascribed different positions.

• Material

  If you select this, the software considers materials while checking if an element is identical to other elements in a model. If structure elements are assigned different materials, these structure elements will be ascribed different positions.

• Bolt class

  If you select this, the software considers a bolt class while checking if a bolt is identical to other bolts in a model. If bolts have different bolt classes, they will be ascribed different positions.

• Overwrite existing positions without confirmation

  If you select this, the structure elements that have been selected and assigned positions are automatically ascribed new positions (previous positions are overwritten).

  If you clear this option and the software finds an element with a position already assigned, the command line prompts you about overwriting the position:

  No - the position will not be changed

  Yes - the position will be changed to a new one

  Yes for all - the position will be changed for all the successive elements that have already been assigned positions.

If the Identify parts option is selected and several identical parts have been found during positioning, the number ascribed to the element is the number of the first identical part found during positioning. All the parts identical to a previously positioned element are ascribed the same position as the first element found.