Part placement accuracy

trenton_carr

Hi All

When I'm placing parts I aim my pointer to the nearest part where I would like to place it à la SW, but the part gets nowhere close to where I want it.

I then have to view on the planes and move them into place, usually using 2 plane views.

Am I doing it incorrectly?

viru

@trenton_carr , You are in right direction. After insertion of part in assembly, parts takes time to come near to user pointer. You have to wait for moment till part have to come to your pointer position as shown in below attached video.

trenton_carr

I do this but get nowhere near where it is supposed to be.

viru

@trenton_carr , I think you have clicked in model space prior to parts coming to your pointer position.
If you are created all parts in one part studio as skeleton modelling approach then at the time of insertion of click on bunch of parts (Like double carden shaft and part studio 1 ) as shown in below image and follow step as shown in below video.

peter_hall

@trenton_carr
I think as @viru mentions , a good approach is to model parts together in one parts studio. Then bring them in all together into the assembly drawing. Indeed if you have designed them in the parts studio in relationship with one another then once you bring them in simply use a group command to maintain these as a group.

trenton_carr

Hi @peter_hall

I have multiple part studios and I cannot combine them together yet as some parts are imported from SW.

I found a way that seems to work. I click on the part I want the new part next to, and then insert. Seems to work better, couple of cm off instead of 300mm off.

philip_thomas

@trenton_carr - you CAN combine parts from multiple parts studios into a single part studio by using 'derive'. Once in the same part studio, you can use transform to orient/position. This is very similar to the 'insert part' workflow in a SolidWorks part file.

trenton_carr

Thank you @philip_thomas I'll give that a bash.