Hello.
I have experienced very strange behaviour of Solidworks.
I have imported IDF from Eagle (pcb + components). It's an assembly.
Regardless of which component I will exchange new components is placed always in system origin (0,0).
I do not get it... "New component" should be placed directly on "old component" coordinates. But as you can see below it works different way...
Any ideas?
Maybe all of the "old" components share the same origin - the origin of the assembly. Expand one of the old components, select the origin, and see where it is. If it is at the assembly origin rather than in the middle of the part then I'm not sure there's anything you can do other than move the new component after replacing it.
Now I see... Origin of components existing in IDF file exported from Eagle is placed that way thay in final assembly all components have origin (0,0) and are placed on the correct position on PCB...
The conclusion is... IDF files from Eagle (maybe from all other CAM software) are useless in case of building 3D models...
It's very sad news for me...
You may be able to import your better 3D models into Eagle, and then the export from Eagle would be more realistic.
Maybe all of the "old" components share the same origin - the origin of the assembly. Expand one of the old components, select the origin, and see where it is. If it is at the assembly origin rather than in the middle of the part then I'm not sure there's anything you can do other than move the new component after replacing it.