Snap to features on other body?

[Anonymous]

Pictured below I have a blue body on a red body.  There is a sketched point on the blue body approximately where a hole will go.  I need to align this point with a hole in the red body.  I expect I should be able to snap the point to the hole, but I do not know how to get the visibility I need.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

If you edit the sketch that has contains the sketch poin, can you project in the edge of the hole on the red body? Then just make the point concentric with the circle.

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous, Not really becasue there is no sketch.  This was imported from Solidworks.  I forgot to mention that.  But, while waiting I activated the red body, created a sketch on that face, then sketched a point.  I then activated the blue body and edited the sketch and was able to snap to the point on the red body.

Another thing I noticed was activating a component makes other components translucent.  This helps too.  It still feels though that I should be able to snap a point in one body to the center of a circular edge in another.  This is likely becasue I am used to doing that in another software though, not necessarily becasue I feel it is required behavior.

Thanks for your help.

[Oceanconcepts]

Paul, some other possibilities:

Edit the sketch on the blue body, and project the edge of the hole from the red body- you don’t need a sketch to project, any features work. That will tell you where your hole needs to be on the sketch. I think that’s what Ndenekamp was suggesting. 

Create an Axis through the hole on the red body (construction menu), extend it, and intersect when editing the blue body sketch. That would work if the hole were not co-planar with the sketch. You could use the axis for a guide in cutting the hole. 

It depends on what the ultimate goal is. 

[Anonymous]

@Oceanconcepts, Thank you for the clarification and other ideas.