Sparweb
Aerospace
- May 21, 2003
- 5,164
Hello
(Please forgive me for comparing SW to Inventor, I do not mean to offend)
There is a productivity tool in Autodesk Inventor called "insert at component origin".
It allows the origin of multiple parts to be aligned as they are being inserted. It goes click 1-2-3, inserting components with their mutually shared origins mated together in one step. This is tremendously handy and something I'd like to be able to do in Solidworks.
What is the equivalent in Solidworks? I am not dropping parts at the universal assembly origin.
To clarify (if necessary) say that I have a bolt and a washer modeled as parts with their origin under the bolt head and face of the washer. If their origins are mated, they would be perfectly mated to each other. I want to install them in a plate with a hole in it. It doesn't matter where the plate is. When I insert the washer into the model, in SW I have to mate it to the hole (normal enough). When Insert the bolt, however, I have to go through the process of mating it to the hole in SW. This should not be necessary, because all I really need to do is mate the bolt's origin to the washer's origin. I used to do this with 2 clicks. Populating assemblies with hardware is taking me and my coworkers a very long time in SW. I'm sure somebody has come up with a shortcut, but my Google powers are not turning up an answer.
No one believes the theory except the one who developed it. Everyone believes the experiment except the one who ran it.
STF
(Please forgive me for comparing SW to Inventor, I do not mean to offend)
There is a productivity tool in Autodesk Inventor called "insert at component origin".
It allows the origin of multiple parts to be aligned as they are being inserted. It goes click 1-2-3, inserting components with their mutually shared origins mated together in one step. This is tremendously handy and something I'd like to be able to do in Solidworks.
What is the equivalent in Solidworks? I am not dropping parts at the universal assembly origin.
To clarify (if necessary) say that I have a bolt and a washer modeled as parts with their origin under the bolt head and face of the washer. If their origins are mated, they would be perfectly mated to each other. I want to install them in a plate with a hole in it. It doesn't matter where the plate is. When I insert the washer into the model, in SW I have to mate it to the hole (normal enough). When Insert the bolt, however, I have to go through the process of mating it to the hole in SW. This should not be necessary, because all I really need to do is mate the bolt's origin to the washer's origin. I used to do this with 2 clicks. Populating assemblies with hardware is taking me and my coworkers a very long time in SW. I'm sure somebody has come up with a shortcut, but my Google powers are not turning up an answer.
No one believes the theory except the one who developed it. Everyone believes the experiment except the one who ran it.
STF