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In this video we are going to show you how powerful user defined components can truly be.
Here we are going to drag-and-drop the shaft bearing component and position it
on our assembly. As you can see you can change its position at any time.
Next we are going have it optimize the bearing based on the diameter that shaft.
And we will validate.
From there we are going to so you another way to position a copy of the component. First we will close our project tree. And then holding control on our keyboard we will grab the
component and drag and drop it to make a copy. Like that it is positioned.
We will change the angel to 90°,
from here we will optimize the shaft diameter again.
And then we are to decide to fasten this using nuts as well.
But in order to get the good length of the bolt, we are going to take and associative measurement for the thickness of our plate.
And like that are bolts are now set at the right length.
From here we are going to hide the two bearings,
just to show you that the correct drillings were put in; on the left a drilled and tapped hole, and on the right a clearance hole.
Next we are going to change the thickness of the plate and show you how intelligent these components truly are.
Like that its 10 mm thicker. And if we look our bolts are now longer, as well as the nuts are in the correct place.
In this next sample we are going to create a weld fixture using a user defined component.
All we do is select the two key points we want to use to position it, and TopSolid 7 does the rest of the work for us. Including position the part.
Let's do that again. Select our two points, validate and we're done. Let's add one more support.
Here we will select point 1 and point 2. And like that our third weld fixture has been added.
Next if we flip this over you will see that it even included the correct machining for screws.
And now let's see what happens if we make a design change.
As you'll see everything automatically updates thanks to the power of TopSolid 7.