Removing submodels

Submodel

Remove a component submodel

Why remove a submodel?

You may need to remove a component submodel in the following circumstances: sometimes you need to select a particular submodel for a given component, but this submodel does not appear in the list of suitable submodels for this component. The reason for this may be that the submodel you need is not compatible with the submodels currently associated with adjoining components. In this case, you must select the adjoining components and click on the Unset button in order to remove their associated submodels. Then it may be possible to select the submodel you need for your component since there are no longer any compatibility constraints with adjoining components.

See the following example:

Figure 439: Rotary load

Suppose you want to modify this to the form in the following figure:

Figure 440: Displacement of the rotary load

If you try to do this without removing any submodels, the figure below is the nearest you will get.

Figure 441: Some submodels are removed

The problem is that neither the torque conversion block nor the rotary inertia are connected to the angle sensor. The reason is the submodels attached to these components, TORQC, RL01 and ADT00, are not compatible. This is clear from the following figure.

Figure 442: External variables of the original submodels

When you remove the submodel (ADT00) from the angle sensor and go to Sketch mode a different submodel is selected for this component which is compatible with TORQC and RL01. This is shown in the following figure.

Procedure to remove one or more submodels

Removing submodels

Submodel procedure to remove a submodel

Components may or may not have submodels. In some libraries lines may have submodels. If they do, then the submodel can be removed. To remove a submodel, do the following:

1. Select the components and/or lines whose submodels you wish to remove.

2. Right-click and select Remove submodel or use the Remove submodels button from the contextual toolbar.

All the selected component and/or line submodels are removed.

Note

This feature is also available from the Sketch mode.