This is a workflow kind of question. I've created a mount for a motor with a flywheel on the end, a base for that mount, and a linear servo component. I've used parameteric design wherever possible (with the exception of using the servo component, which I imported from somewhere online).
I'm now trying to design another component to position them correctly. My plan is to draw some alignment holes on a sketch, and I can dimension the distance between them to align the components. That handles the "base" plane. I would then extrude that to cover all 3 axis, and add rigid joints to align everything.
But, the components need to be positioned at different heights. Because I have a hierarchy of parameteric components, I tried just creating a new parameter - by going through sketches and the timeline and adding various terms to the formula to get the correct height of each component, subtracting them to find the difference, etc.
However, I made some mistake in this process, and it's not surprising since it's really fiddly to go through that process.
Since all extrusions were parameteric, I was hoping I could use some tool to "measure" the total height of a component, and F360 could give me a formula. It doesn't look like that feature exists?
In lieu of that, is there another way to do this kind of design for an assembly? Just looking for a general approach.
