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Re: Automatic origin constraint
Deepak Gupta May 19, 2016 1:04 AM (in response to Jed Ferreras)When you export multi bodies to assembly, all parts would be fixed and any change you make in parent model should get reflected to the assembly file. And bodies/part files should adjust. How adding mates would help?
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Re: Automatic origin constraint
Jed Ferreras May 19, 2016 9:21 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)So,
First what I do is I make an empty part file.
This part file has a first sketch with overall height and width. It also has a second sketch with overall depth. It then has a third sketch with overall design intent of the entire product (so imagine a water bottle, Id have a sketch with the shape and it'd be constrained to the other two sketches). Then there'd be a series of workplanes, some of which would require a sketch with a center point at some distance from a known centerline or something of that nature (some critical location geometrically speaking).
Once this empty part file is complete, I insert it into every part that I will make or use in my assembly. Sometimes the new parts have to be multibody. But even when i have multibody, I am still working with sheet metal and need to generate flats. I also need to check tolerances and clearances, sometimes I have to do configurations, therefore I need the assembly. Most important of all, is the drawing, which the fabricatiors need, so yeah the multibody model is just a step in the process, I still need drawings.
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Re: Automatic origin constraint
Deepak Gupta May 19, 2016 9:54 AM (in response to Jed Ferreras)You can do drawings for multi bodies also and there can be one body per sheet or one drawing per body.
Also I would rather create a layout in assembly mode OR would insert the master file in assembly and take references there instead of inserting part into every single part.
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Re: Automatic origin constraint
Jed Ferreras May 19, 2016 10:50 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)Again i am working with sheet metal, also I am working in a team not on my own, also we have part numbers for each part.
I dont agree with making references inside the assembly, this typically results in alot of issues and broken constraints once changes start to flow in.
Ideally the goal would be to have a single point of entry for all and any changes, one file where all the parts follow from it.
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