Top-down assemblies - AS1's productive generation of assembly structures is due in part to its intuitive, top-down definition of assembly structures involving parts and subassemblies with an unlimited number or levels. Menus control modifications to the assembly structure, including cut, copy, paste, etc.
Concurrent engineering - AS1 supports concurrent engineering during the design of the assembly and its individual parts. Parts specifications are managed independently from assembly specifications.
Advanced constrained or unconstrained part placements - Multiple unconstrained part placement methods can be proposed to accelerate the preliminary definition of assemblies. Parts can be snapped in position, dragged, and dropped using rotations or translations.
Automated parts placement - Intuitive specifications of assembly constraints include contacts between the planar, cylindrical, spherical, circular, and conical faces of a part.
Dynamic parts movement - AS1 supports dragging parts into position and moving constrained parts by respecting their assembly constraints, or by freely moving them without constraints.
Dynamic analysis of assembly definitions - AS1 offers fully integrated, part-to-part collision detection and distance and clearance analysis functions (on exact or mock-up geometry representations). The user may perform an analysis of the assembly constraint network at any time. When design changes have caused an assembly inconsistency or an over-constrained situation, a diagnosis will be produced.
Assembly structure editor - The Assembly Structure Editor offers an intuitive and powerful management of the assembly structure to facilitate design changes, including capture of assembly intent and fast assembly changes through edit, cut, copy, paste, and drag and drop.
Independent structure and parts representations - AS1 manages the resolution of links between assembly files or between an assembly file and a representation file. This allows users to easily move from a configuration involving in-work designs to another involving released designs. This way, the system can fully match the customer methodology and design process.
BOM generation - Exploded views of Bill of Materials (BOMs) can be generated using AS1 Version 5's interactive generation capabilities, in textual or HTML format.
STEP file exchange - Assembly structure definitions can be exchanged in a native STEP AP203 format, facilitating exchanges between designers in an extended enterprise.
