When you edit a Part, you open the Part-Editor, and close the Mechanism-Editor in which the Part is a child.

The Part-Editor is the workspace with which you add and edit geometry in a Part.

The workspace of the Part-Editor includes the Part name-tab, the graphics-area, and the XY-axes at the origin of the Part.

The commands are in the Geometry menu (MD17), the Geometry toolbar, and the Constraints toolbar.

A Part represents any rigid-body in your machine.

Parts in MechDesigner include the:

•Base-Part : the fixed-frame that we add to the model when you add a new Mechanism-Editor.

•Parts : the Parts that you add to the model.

Derived names that we use for for Parts include:

•Connecting-Part : a Part in a spatial mechanism

•Free, Completely-Free, not kinematically-defined, or not solved : a Part whose Mobility > 0

•Kinematically-defined, solved : a Part whose Mobility = 0

•Motion-Part, Rocker, and Slider : a Part whose motion you control with a Motion-Dimension FB

Use the part editor to add sketch elements, constraints, and dimensions to a part.

See more: Why edit a Part.

See also: How to start the Part-Editor and How to exit the Part-Editor

Graphics-area : shows the XY-Axes of the Part, the sketch-elements, and dimensions that you add to the Part.

Name-tab : is above the graphics-area. The name of the tab changes from the name of the Mechanism-Editor to the name of the Part.

Note:

We do not show in the graphic-area the Constraints you add to or between sketch-elements - see How to delete a constraint.

See also: How to start the Part-Editor and How to exit the Part-Editor

Geometry menu

Geometry menu : Add sketch-elements, constraints, and dimensions

The Geometry menu has the commands that are in the Geometry toolbar and the Constraints toolbar.

•Geometry toolbar (left (<<) of workspace and graphics-area)

The commands to add sketch-elements and dimensions

•Constraints toolbar (right (>>) of workspace and graphics-area)

The commands to add constraints to and between sketch-elements.