Aluminium profiles assembly

fma

I started to work with aluminium profiles (Bosch 45x45), and I was wondering if you have some interesting tricks to make assemblies easier?

I don't want to represent everything, but I would like to be able to easily make the basic shapes, and be able to move/block as needed...

Thanks,

Jason_S

Take a look what I did here: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/948cc29b68727669d0135378/w/84fa001d3a23a6a5bff84dfc/e/58ab58f2dccd0539c0552886

I made connecting plates first, positioned them in the assembly, then created a Part Studio in-context to define the lines that drive the beam profiles. If I Change the distance of the entities in the Assembly, then update the in-context reference, the lengths of the profiles are updated appropriately. 

Hope this helps!

Jason

Jason_S

Take a look what I did here: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/948cc29b68727669d0135378/w/84fa001d3a23a6a5bff84dfc/e/58ab58f2dccd0539c0552886

I made connecting plates first, positioned them in the assembly, then created a Part Studio in-context to define the lines that drive the beam profiles. If I Change the distance of the entities in the Assembly, then update the in-context reference, the lengths of the profiles are updated appropriately. 

Hope this helps!

Jason

fma

Thanks! In-context editing is a good idea...

How would you constrain orthogonal profiles, like vertical feet on your frame? It would be nice to be able to translate the all frame along teh feet, in the vertical direction. But it is difficult to find correct Mates for this...

Jason_S

I made it public, so you can copy the document. I used the "Use" command while editing in-context to project the holes of the feet to drive the length of the profiles.