About aligning designs and parts

To visualize what a part looks like in the floor position, you align it with its corresponding design. This type of alignment is called the design-part alignment. For example, you align a part Wheel with its design to know what it looks like in its floor position.

While visualizing the part or while validating if the part is aligned correctly, if any issues are found, you can first remove the alignment between the design and part, and then realign the part with the correct design.

The different ways to align designs and parts are:

Add a design revision to a part revision

For a flexible part, you can add multiple design revisions to the part revision to represent the flexibility and orientation of the part. You can set one of the design revisions as the primary representation of the part revision.

Add a part revision to a design revision

To the same design revision, you can add multiple part revisions to show variations in characteristics such as color, finish, material, and supplier.