I am trying to build something with Openbeam extrusions but am having a hard time aligning the plate holes with the extrusion slot. I have looked at doing both assembly rigid joins and move alignments but the extrusion slot does not provide an immediate edge or surface to align with the plates holes. I am looking for additional guidance or advanced tutorials that might explain more advanced techniques then what the basic tutorial show.
The beam and plate geometry files are available on thingiverse.
Beam: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:30521
Plate: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:30523
How would you assemble these components together?
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Here is one way:
Parts must be separate components. Activate one Component and create a construction feature you can use as an alignment reference inside that component. This could be the center axis of a hole or rod, or a plane, or a point, etc. Position is up to you. Do the same in the second component. Re-activate the base component. So long as the features are inside the separate components you can select them, right click, and select the align command. This lets you use a feature other than those selected by the program as an align point.