Keep orientation of child part with parent

peter_van_westen

Can't figure this out.

Say I have 3 parts.

The child part has a revolute mate with the parent along the X.
The parent part has a revolute mate with the grandparent along the X.

I can now drag the child to a certain angle relative to the parent.

But if I now drag the parent, the child tries to keep its global orientation, and does not keep its orientation (angle) with the parent.

I have created a sub assembly for the parent and child, and have the revolute mate in there.
Then in the main assembly, I import that sub assembly and add the revolute mate between the parent and grandparent.
But the behavior remains the same…

Matt_Shields

Does locking the subassembly solve your problem?

peter_van_westen

That locks the parent and child together. So that makes it no longer possible to change the rotation of the child (relative to the parent) by dragging the child.

So what I would like:

• drag the child to change rotation of the child (parent and grand-parent stay where they are)
• drag the parent to change the rotation of the parent + child (as if it is 1 part)