I am designing a switch to be 3d printed for an existing device. The device has a complicated faceplate. I have designed a frame for the switch assembly that will fit that faceplate. With a few tweaks and test prints, I'm satisfied I have the correct basic shape for the frame and now am working on the switch..
Now that I am designing the switch, I am iterating on the frame and switch. I sketched the switch, did my extrusions etc, then used Joint to see how they look together.
My problem is, when I go to tweak the sketch for the switch, the sketch returns to the origin, so I can't see the sketch overlaid with the Body of the frame.
- At first I tried to fix this by creating the component then manually moving its origin before creating the sketch, but seems more difficult than it should be considering I'm sure this is a common workflow.
- Next, I tried creating the component, then creating an Offset Plane from the frame Body, then sketching on that. This is nice and seems to work so far, but I have a sense this is not best practice because 1) it seems like components should be sketched in relation to their own Origin, and 2) it seems like this might cause problems with the camera on large components, i.e. trying to zoom out to include both the component Sketch / Body and the Origin that I "left behind".
Most tutorials I see on joints are basic: it's not hard to put a 10 mm wheel on a 10 mm hub; make two 10mm circles and call it a day; no need to reference back-and-forth between the two components to get slots, holes, pegs, etc aligned, but for anything more advanced, I have a sense that there is a better way to do this I haven't discovered yet. Can anyone point me in the right way?
