Syllogism
Industrial
- Aug 21, 2011
- 7
Hi All, Thanks for taking the time to read my question.
I'm currently working on a project that has a lot of interlocking steel parts. These parts need to have an offset of 0.1mm added to the joining / interlocking parts so that when they get laser-cut they will fit into each other. My first approach to do this was to offset particular faces inside of individual parts. However this soon caused severe problems for me since whole assembly would then break because subtracting 0.1mm from a face in an assembly would lead to a number of relationships breaking.
I can't be the first person who's needed to do this, I was wonder what the best approach would be to this. Perhaps there's some way to freeze or lock the assembly so that they don't automatically re-calibrate every time I change a part file?
I'm currently working on a project that has a lot of interlocking steel parts. These parts need to have an offset of 0.1mm added to the joining / interlocking parts so that when they get laser-cut they will fit into each other. My first approach to do this was to offset particular faces inside of individual parts. However this soon caused severe problems for me since whole assembly would then break because subtracting 0.1mm from a face in an assembly would lead to a number of relationships breaking.
I can't be the first person who's needed to do this, I was wonder what the best approach would be to this. Perhaps there's some way to freeze or lock the assembly so that they don't automatically re-calibrate every time I change a part file?