Capture Position Option

[jburickJUFQ4]

Hiya, quick question - I'm trying to find what the exact purpose of the "Capture Position" option in the Move/Copy dialogue box.  Why wouldn't you want to capture the position of the component after moving it?  I'm have a hard time tracking down the explanation in the documentation.

Thank you!

[jburickJUFQ4]

Figured it out!

[TrippyLighting]

You should NOT use the capture position feature for initially locating and orienting a component.

That's what the assembly joints are for.

[jburickJUFQ4]

Yep I try to make sure I adhere to that...what would be best practice for using the move/copy command?

[TrippyLighting]

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@jburickJUFQ4 wrote:

Yep I try to make sure I adhere to that...what would be best practice for using the move/copy command?

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If I remember it correctly, you work mostly industrial and product design.

That might result in multi-body components and you ight want to move bodies, or sometimes faces.

You would use the  move command for that.

If you want to do position based modeling you can us the move command with a following position capture feature, but only after initially locating the components with joints. For example a revolute, or slider joint have degrees of freedom, which allow you to change the position  of a component within certain constraints.

I know that @jeff_strater is a big fan of position based modeling. Maybe he has a good example he can share.