Constrain parts to the assembly orgin axis?

[billjenkins]

I have an assembly of parts constrained to each other and the parts are not grounded.  I would like to orient my assembly to the orgin axis of the .iam enviroment so that  I can get the exact views that I want.  I use Inventor 2009. No parts are adaptive.

Thank You,

Bill J.

[Anonymous]

just mate XY plane of the base part to the XY plane of the assembly, etc

[billjenkins]

Thanks but that did not work. I can move my model around in the .iam environment but for some reason the model will not constrain via work plane of the base part to the .iam origin plane or axis. I get an error message dealing with many constraints being inconsistent. Not a big deal but if you come up with any other ideas, I'll give them a try. I do have a Level of Detail in the model. 95 parts total.

Thank You,

Bill J.

[mcgyvr]

Sounds like you are just not constraining correctly or you still have something grounded. Make sure you are picking the right solution option in the mate constraint (flush or mate)

[Anonymous]

 a bit of a workaroud:

demote all of the 95 parts into a subassembly, set the subassembly BOM structure to be phantom, then constrain the base part as needed.