Assembly problem

Assembly problem

EdwinBElowsson
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Assembly problem

EdwinBElowsson
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Hi
I have a file with a ball bearing when I insert it into another file, I can not pick the ball bearing as a unit and move it around.
It comprises two rings and 9 balls.

Edwin

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jeff_strater
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There are two ways to do this.  If you are just using the Move command, you can select all the components together, and make sure "Move Components" is selected.  Then, everything should move together.

 

Better, though, is to create joints to tie your bearing parts together.  If you don't care about the motion, you can just create a single rigid group of the rings and the balls together.  That would be the easiest/best approach.  Then, no matter how you move your components (screen drag, Move command, Align command, etc), everything will move as a unit.

 

Jeff

 


Jeff Strater
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