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How can I realign an imported part in Assembly?
w_s856
Member Posts: 57 ✭
I would like, in Assembly, to reorient the "interphone" part so that it lays flat on a plane. Right now it i swerdly inclined and setting the angles to 0 (in the small reference I can use to rotate a part when I click on it) keeps it misaligned like that.
I thought about mating it to a plane, but there are no planes :) and I cannot find where to add one (ChatGPT is seriously hallucinating on that one…)
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glen_dewsbury
Member Posts: 1,165 PRO
The quickest way is to delete the interphone then insert a new one.
The triads are an indication of degrees of freedom for that part. Once you fix the interphone the degrees of freedom will be gone.
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In assembly interphone is inserted by selecting from list hen hit the check mark without selecting a point on the main screen. Then fix in place.
New servo assembly created to get the revolve motion for the arm repeated. Better than cylindrical mate because it is also used to mate arm against servo with only one mate instead of 2.
Fasten points for servos is added as mate connector in interphone via edit in context. Manual positioning of servo parts is done in assembly first then suppressed and fasten mate applied. By supressing the manual mates it will allow motion of the arms.
https://learn.onshape.com/catalog?labels=%5B%22Learning%20Format%22%5D&query=assembly%20mates&values=%5B%22Course%22%5D
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/mate.htm?Highlight=mates
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8ddd58d1270dad36d23d4327/w/3c34569d92f3aeb993327a79/e/bbf19bb6b4dd56be75fd243c
@glen_dewsbury
> In assembly interphone is inserted by selecting from list hen hit the check mark without selecting a point on the main screen. Then fix in place.
I must have chosen the pont in my insertion when creating it. Is this something I can fix? I do not see the double arrow next to interphone in my document
Thank you for the other recommendations, I will review them closely!
The quickest way is to delete the interphone then insert a new one.
The triads are an indication of degrees of freedom for that part. Once you fix the interphone the degrees of freedom will be gone.