To Declare an Axis, Planar Surface, or Datum Plane Explicitly

Assembly Design > Assembly Design > Top Down Design > Notebooks > Declaring Datums in a Notebook > To Declare an Axis, Planar Surface, or Datum Plane Explicitly

1. Click File > Manage File >

Declare. The DECLARE menu opens.

For a part you can click Model Intent >

Declare.

2. Click DeclareName.

3. Select the axis, planar surface, or datum plane to declare. In Assembly mode, use only assembly datum planes and axes.

4. If you select a plane, flip the orientation of the datum plane as necessary to correspond with its orientation in the notebook.

5. Enter the global datum name. The local datum is renamed appropriately.

6. Declarations are stored with the model. To change a datum declaration, select the datum and choose UnDecl Name from the DECLARE menu.

If you try to declare a datum that you have already declared to another datum, the REDECLARE menu displays the commands Replace and Quit. Choose Replace to replace the existing declaration with the new one, or choose Quit to leave it as is.

You must declare the model to the notebook before creating an explicit declaration.