Showing an assembly in two different positions?

[ckb614]

I need to show my product in two separate states. This involves several parts rotating and translating. I tried to do it with the Scene toolbar, but it only allows you to use the snap function and no Manipulate. What is the best way of showing this? I would just save as a new model, but the assembly is massive and it would take too much to open both of them.

 

[ckb614]

I just saved 2 CGRs and put them in a new product. That should be fine

 

[kirrer]

I've used the Scene function for this before, although there is no manipulate (which I also preferred) I found that I can get near the same functionality by dropping the compass onto the component I want to move, and dragging along the compass axes to move in a particular direction / rotate about a specific axis.

Alternatively if the rotations/translations are defined as constraints, and you wanted to 'manipulate with respect to constraints', you could create a scene (with the limited override function, I forgot exactly what it's called) when the master assembly is at one state, exit the scene, move the assembly to desired position no. 2 and create a new scene at that new position (again with limited override functionality). The positions of the components should reflect where they were when the scene was created. I haven't tried this in about a year, though, so don't shoot me if I remembered incorrectly...

 

[jackk]

Scenes would be one way to do it.

If you're using Assembly constraints, you could use parameters to define the two states of the assembly.

 

[DBezaire]

ckb61
You could do this with Flexible/Rigid assemblies. This involves constraining your assembly correctly. You can switch the assembly to flexible and update the constraints to the new configuration. Turning the assembly to flexible will allow you to move the parts and hold the respective contextual design features. Turn the assembly back to rigid and the assembly returns to the original position. You could make an instance copy of the assembly to show it in 2 different positions. This will not create additional files as this is a true instance copy. The flexible assembly icon turns the blue gear of the product to purple with a cyan minus sign over it.

Regards,
Derek


Win XP64
R20/21, 3DVIA Composer 2012, ST R20
Dell T7400 16GB Ram
Quadro FX 4800 - 1.5GB