For the next few lessons I will continue developing the dam section shown in Lesson 2.

So open Subassembly Composer – Start Menu -> search “Sub” You should see it

Before you do anything chose a good place to save all your subassemblies. I prefer to keep them in one place in a development folder. Then copy them to the project standard folder if that project utilizes that particular subassembly.

1. Save to your development folder “DamAssembly”

2. Now input all your input parameters you will need. Remember, try to group them by widths/grades/slopes etc (there are no sorting buttons, however if you are really deep in and don’t want to delete and recreate, here is a workaround you can use to sort the parameters without deleting them)

3. Set the Type, Double (Decimal Numbers), Integer (Whole Numbers), String (Text), Slope/grade etc.

4. Set a good default value for the parameters and use a logical display name that will make sense to the end user.

5. Lastly Pick a Side. If you don’t pick a side you can’t use the mirror functionality to quickly flip the subassembly to operate the other way

One thing you will notice is I have not created every code in the subassembly. Just parts that can be combined together to form the finished code. I.E – for material A top links it will be <cp + m_A + csl_T> or OP1_A_top

6. Now input all your target parameters you will need. Remember, try to group them by offsets, elevations, surfaces etc.

So a curious thing you will notice is the sl_IN, sl_OUT, dp_B are all linked to elevation type. This is because I am going to use a elevation profile to control the parameter. So I can create smooth transitions. This is explained in more detail in %Profile Based Parameters%

Now on to Lesson 4 – Clever Coding