Fix an accidentally moved component's location without messing up references?

[drew]

Have attached both the design file and will a screencast. Please have a look.

After copying and placing a component (FrameHorizFullWidth:5) into its proper location, I continued on designing.

One of the MANY things done after placing the component in question was that I used the edge of it (projected into a new sketch in a new component) to control the length and end position of another component.

I then discovered that altering the user parameter "FrameStockThickness" would cause the top face of two components (one was FrameHorizFullWidth:5) to change in the 'wrong' direction.

I rotated both of those components 180 degrees top to bottom, and 180 degrees end to end. This addressed the issue of enlarging on the wrong side, and at this time FrameHorizFullWidth:5 looked to be in the right place.

I have just discovered that FrameHorizFullWidth:5 is NOT in the correct position - and I can' figure out how to fix it.

Simply using "Move" to move FrameHorizFullWidth:5 will put it back where it should be, but then it interferes (overlaps) with the part that uses FrameHorizFullWidth:5 as its length reference.

Please have a look at the design and the (sorry so long) screencast, and give me some guidance?

Thanks...

[drew]

Screencast:

[drew]

Still hoping for responses, but in the meanwhile I have had to:

Walk back one by one through about 160 Timeline items (in multiple components) and zoom in on the issue each time... eventually finding the point in time that the item shifted position.

At that point in the timeline, I fixed the alignment.

Then I spent a couple of hours puzzling over all the errors correcting the alignment spawned. 

So, I got there, but I got there by spending a whole crap-ton of time.

Gotta be a better way, so please do post if you know how.

[daniel_lyall]

you're doing it the hard way.

What does work is have one sketch for the entire frame, and have it constrained and dimensioned with user parameters.

Then when you come to doing the extrudes you set them as a new component.

This gives you a sketch that controls all, if you change a user paramater and it is constrained and dimensioned correctly, it just works as it should.

You don't need to have one sketch you can do a few and constrain them with a diamention or constraint to each other, dimensions are easier to set than a constraint a 3D coincident constraint work quite well for this.

I will have a look at your file anyway and see if it can be fixed easily so you don't need to start again.