If I am aligning a tubular lamp shade on a smaller rectangular base is there a better alignment tool? In Solid Works if I put the bolt holes in I can pick circular mate on the corresponding holes and the shade would fly across the room and align itself with the bolt holes.
This is a wall mounted fixture so the shade looks like it is laying sideways parallel to the rectangle. When I use the Align tool and pick the base as the first pick and the shade as the second pick it goes looking for the shade in the files or it just aligns it in one direction.
I Get the impression from the other posts I have been reading on this subject that to really align the pieces together perfectly I might have to make planes in each part in its own family file and then align it by the planes in the host file.
Do you think that is the most precise way ? ? ? I wish snap points would appear like when the line drawing tool is being used.
