Automatically Part XYZ origin constrain to Assembly XYZ origin

[yvs_21]

Hello, everyone. I'm looking to streamline a process. Is it possible for iLogic to automatically constrain a part's origins to the assembly's origins? Instead of manually constraining the part's YZ, XZ, and XY planes to the assembly's YZ, XZ, and XY planes one by one, can an iLogic rule achieve this in a single step when I select the part? Or is there another way to do this? I'm new to Inventor, so please bear with me. I've been trying to generate iLogic code with the help of ChatGPT and Bard, but I haven't had any luck.

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

One of the Productively Tools. does this.

Look at the Ground and Root options (going from memory - don’t have Inventor running at the moment).

[SBix26]

As you are placing a component in your assembly, right click and select Place Grounded at Origin:

If you want this to occur automatically for the first component in every assembly, simply set your Application Options:

In either case, if you then want the component to no longer be nailed to the origin, simply right click on the component and de-select Grounded.   If you just want to move it to a different location (still grounded), you can right click and select iProperties > Occurrence tab and change the Current Offset from Parent Assembly Origin X/Y/Z offsets.  Note that editing of rotation is not available through this interface.

Hope this gives you some new techniques to consider.

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Sam B

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