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Locking down complex imported assemblies

bill_raynerbill_rayner OS Professional Posts: 34 PRO
edited July 2016 in Community Support
I signed up a year ago today (according to a pop-up I got just now) but this is my first day of being fully cut loose from solidworks; I'm on holiday in France, my PC is in Australia and I'm importing complex assemblies hoping to do modifications in Onshape.
I've found that keeping the assembly together is easy; just use the group command, but then tying the group to the origin is a nightmare.
All I want to do is make the machine base horizontal with the origin a fixed distance below the centre of the face of a disc which has a horizontal axis. Takes a minute in SW, but there's no easy way in Onshape. For a start there are no planes in the assembly tab, or any parallel constraint that I can find.
Any suggestions?

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  • _Ðave__Ðave_ Member, Developers Posts: 712 ✭✭✭✭
    @bill_rayner I think that I would use a fasten mate as per vid below. HTH
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  • bill_raynerbill_rayner OS Professional Posts: 34 PRO
    Thanks Bruce, brilliant!
  • bill_raynerbill_rayner OS Professional Posts: 34 PRO
    On reflection, not so brilliant in complex assemblies. Much time and head scratching is currently required.
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