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WCrihfield
in reply to: Maxim-CADman77

Just a quick related note about an old automotive industry technique that you may, or may not already be aware of.  When they wanted to make a configurable assembly, once they have the 'master' assembly the way they want it, with every main type of part and sub assembly in place, they would then work backwards to transfer each component's position & orientation from the origin of the assembly, and duplicate that within the parts and sub assemblies, so that the part would be that exact same position and orientation from its own origin.  Then when they want to switch one type of part or sub assembly out for another, they are all constrained to the origin in the exact same way.  That system may be awkward/challenging to use/maintain in some scenarios, but works pretty good in others.  Never any 'faces don't match' problems.

Wesley Crihfield

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