The Assembly Browser is an object oriented modeling environment
where the fundamental entity is the module entity.
A module is a HyperMesh entity used to represent subsystems of
an assembly. It can have multiple representations and related metadata such as ID ranges,
tagpoints and states. Modules can be created from the Assembly Browser
by right-clicking and selecting Create Module. The Edit Module is
used to manage the various aspects of the module definition, which can be accessed from the
Assembly Browser by right-clicking and selecting Edit
Representations. A module based assembly definition can be saved in an
.xml file.
To open a previously created assembly, you need to import an .xml file. This should be an assembly database file that
you exported from the NVH Director.
The Assembly Browser includes the following views:
Base View
This view displays every entity within the hierarchy, the display status and the Analysis
status. Figure 1.
File View
The File View display shows the Export status and the associated .xml file path for each module. Figure 2.
This view also includes the Preserve/Merge option.
Preserve
Saves an assembly .xml file along
with a set of nested subassembly files (similar to include files).
Merge
Saves the assembly file with all subassembly files merged into it.
Subassembly files can be specified by clicking the ‘-‘ icon in the XML file path column.
Navigate to the desired folder and specify a file name. Export of subassembly files can be
controlled by checking/unchecking of the checkbox in the Export column.
Note: The Save XML
option is enabled only in the File View to ensure that you are aware that the subassembly
files are over-written.
ID View
The ID View shows the summary of ID ranges assigned to modules with representation in the
assembly hierarchy. It also shows the assignment and conflict status in terms of
Intra-Module and Inter-Module flags. Intra-Module = Yes means IDs of all entities in the
module are within assigned range, or else Intra-Module = No. Inter-Module = Yes means there
are no ID conflicts across modules, or else Inter-Module = No. Figure 3.
Property View
The Property View shows the mass and damping of modules with representation in the assembly
hierarchy. Mass is also shown for the root module and parent modules. Figure 4.
