Today I want to share my favorite features with you that reduce redundant tasks, enable you to reuse existing designs and more, to help you work smarter and faster.
The Design Assistant tools use artificial intelligence (AI) to offer design guidance based on your workflows, which speed up time-consuming and redundant tasks, such as making selections and inserting duplicate components.
The Design Assistant for Mate Creation lets you add fasteners on an assembly quick and easy with just one click of a button as the Mate Helper automatically inserts multiple instances of components into your assembly by recognizing and suggesting locations to replicate components. This reduces time spent installing duplicate components, such as fasteners and screws.
This is a great tool for repetitive tasks, such as making multiple selections for filleting and chamfering part edges.
The Design Assistant for Selection offers a suggestion on what you should select next, based on the work completed so far. It’s a great companion for picking edges, fillets, or chamfers, as it will identify other edges that are similar or symmetrical, are of a comparable length or are located nearby, and predicts what other edges you are likely to select. If you add another manual selection, the prediction is refined. If you agree with the prediction, one tap gives the go-ahead, and it automatically picks all suggested edges.
The Insert Sketch tool is another great timesaver as it enables you to import and reuse an existing sketch. Just hit the Insert Sketch option from the Sketch toolbar on the Action bar, and that will give you the option to search for your sketch using the 3D Search capability and easily insert that sketch into the model you are working on.
The Insert Geometry tool lets you import and reuse an existing Physical Product Body in your design model. Once you insert your desired Physical Product into your design, you can position it the way you want using the Move Body feature. The anchor point for moving the inserted body can be its origin. First, I usually create a point sketch in my model for the location of the inserted geometry. Then using the Move Body feature, I can easily drag and drop the Physical Product Body on the point sketch location.
Because of the point sketch, I don’t have to worry about putting the exact three-dimensional coordinates into the Move Body command for the desired location of the inserted geometry. Just hit the Insert Geometry option from the Feature toolbar on the Action bar, and that will give you the option to search for your component using 3D Search and easily insert that component into your model. You also have the option to pick any revision or configuration that may exist with that component.
PartSupply is a free online parts catalog that offers ready-to-use, source-able 3D parts from more than 1,700 providers. It provides a quick and easy way to find reusable “standard” parts, you know the parts that can be reused across all your design projects and assemblies, such as fasteners and brackets.
Plus, you can easily launch and access PartSupply right from your design environment in 3D Creator and insert standard parts into your models. It’s as easy as dragging and dropping a part.
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