Chapter 19: Using Smart Components
Tutorial: Working with Smart Components
This tutorial guides you through creating a Smart Component that only uses the auto-sizing fea-
ture. This enables you to manually create parts that snap to size like Toolbox parts, but without
using Toolbox functionality. Follow these steps:- Open the part from the CD-ROM that has the filename Chapter 19 – Tutorial
Start.sldprt. This part originally came from Toolbox and already contains a few
configurations. - Make an assembly that contains only this part.
- Make the part into a Smart Component (Tools ➪ Make Smart Component), and
turn on the option to auto-size. - Select the small diameter of the part as the concentric mate reference. Figure 19.17
shows the selection. - Click the Configurator Table button, and fill in the table so that it looks like
Figure 19.18. Some configurations are blank. This is because only the rows that have mini-
mum and maximum values are used by the auto-size function. The rest are overlooked.
FIGURE 19.17
Selecting the concentric mate reference face