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How to move assembly back to origin.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:19:22 GMT

Hi.

Could anyone enlighten me on how i can move my assembly back to the origin/ X planes.

Whenever i come to make a DWG out of my assembly from inventor the views are not straight, i.e if i chose the top view it would be skewed to the left, revealing other parts below, which makes measuring a nightmare and more importantly is extremely not good too look at...

Any help would be appreciated,

Cheers,

Ben

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

CCarreiras — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:58:47 GMT

Hi!

You have to ground one representative part of the model.

Select that representative part and select "Ground and Root Component".

If not work, place your model or maybe a print screen image can be enought to understand whats your case.

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:05:21 GMT

That seems to be the right direction definitely, however when i do ground
and root the component all the separate components seem to not stay
attached, i presume this has something to do with not enough constraints on
those individual 'loose' components?

Cheers!

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

CCarreiras — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:18:51 GMT

Hi!

Obviously!!! 🙂
Definitely, You have a lack of constraints in your model.

Tip: the first thing you must do is select the most representative part (a center part or something like that, it depends the model) and make coincident his own planes with the assembly planes.
The part will be fixed in space, therefore you have now a anchor to attach all other elements.
Then, add the constraints to connect parts each other.. usually 3 constrains per part is enough (can be 2 in same situations).

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:39:57 GMT

ll give it a go! Ive accidentally rooted one component and i dont know how to remove the root now haha...

Seems to working though, so thankyou.

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

warrentdo — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:44:32 GMT

right hand click the part/assembly and take the tick off ground.
Warren.

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:55:01 GMT

Hmmmm. Ive tried grounding the most central part of my assembly. (Pointed out by my beautifully drawn arrow).

Yet as you can see in my DWG the lines arent straight and the actually assembly is not inline...

Apologies, ive just started on inventor and at the moment im teaching myself.

Cheers

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:08:01 GMT

As you can see through this the origin planes arent straight...

Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

warrentdo — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:31:26 GMT

Hello Ben,

First I would remove the grounded part and let the assembly move around.

Then pick the main 'part' of your assembly and constrain it to the assembly origins.

So that would be placing a constraint, mate FLUSH between Assembly origin YZ to selected part YZ

do the same for XZ and XY.

This should then realign the assembly to the view cube.

I would really recommend getting an Tutorial something like inventor essentials.

I feel that by teaching yourself you may miss things out.

Regards

Warren.

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Re: How to move assembly back to origin.

CCarreiras — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:47:11 GMT

Hi!

Do some basic tutorials first. You are far from what you're trying to achieve.

Im seing in your browser tree that you have one sub-assembly for each part!!!! Why?!

Just place each part within the main assembly. It's a lot easy to control.

Sorry to say, but you don't know what youre doing.

Also, for this kind of geometry, look at "frame generator".

Check the video.

Pros:

Easy to place elements

easy to edit

easy to cut treatments

Cons:

Only standard profiles, but.... you can always publish your custom profiles and publish them in the content center. Then you can use frame generator to place them.

https://screencast.autodesk.com/Embed/Timeline/6012b0d8-4641-418b-830e-0aa98fbfe3c2

Also in the video 2, i demonstrate how to place and remove the grounded status (and same time placed centered in assembly). You just have to delete the constrains and remove the Gournded status.Note: You can place grounded status in any position don't need to be centered, get it?

https://screencast.autodesk.com/Embed/Timeline/842ca5f4-b426-40ef-be6f-4c92c2a33d53