MechDesigner Reference & User Interface > 3: Project Explorer > Element-Explorer

The elements you add to your model are in the Assembly-Tree.

Each element has an Element Icon and an Element Name.

We add the elements to the Assembly-Tree in the order you add them to the model.

The elements also have a hierarchy.

Assembly-Tree in Explorer-Explorer

Element Hierarchy

Mechanism elements are children to Plane elements.

Parts, Function-Blocks, Joints, Gears, Belts, ... are children to Mechanism elements.

CAD-Lines, Profiles, 3D-Cams, and 2D-Cams are children to Part elements.

Parts

To the left of each Part, an icon identifies if the kinematic-chain to which it is associated, is solved, broken, or unsolved.

Solved and kinematic-chain is not broken:

•Mobility is zero

•AND all Pin-Joints and Slide-Joints in the kinematic-chain do not break for all positions of the machine-cycle.

Solved but kinematic-chain breaks

•Mobility is zero

•BUT one or more Pin-Joints and/or Slide-Joints in the kinematic-chain break within the machine-angle in the machine-cycle.

Unsolved kinematic-chain.

•Mobility is greater than zero(0).

Selected Elements

When you click an element :

•a square shows around the icon, and

•the element shows in the Selection-Window

Shortcut menu:

Right-click an element in the Assembly-Tree, to show a shortcut menu.

You can use the shortcut menu to:

•Edit Element

•Delete (element)

•Rename ... (element)