This functionality is only available for certain module packages.

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Instantiate components

In the previous step, you already selected in the project wizard the Feeder component, which was installed in the project as an instance. Without doing so first, you would have to instantiate the Feeder component manually.

A component is instantiated by dragging it from the Library Catalog view to the Project Catalog view. Instantiate means that an instance is created from the component specification.

If the Feeder component has not been instantiated yet, proceed as follows:

The Mechatronic object is the root object of a mechatronic configuration (later in the tutorial, you will also encounter non-mechatronic configurations, i.e., discipline-specific configurations).

Remarks:

In order to still give objects unique names, the absolute name should be used when in doubt, which is derived from the paths displayed in the tree structures: