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Assembly Dimensioning

Okay, so I have a part (cast), and I have the runner to the cast, and I have all of the cooling tubes made, and now I want to set them in an assembly the way they are, compared to the runner/cast. Is there any way, I can just type in the dimensions for the cooling to move (each pipe is a different solid), but I plan to "hide" the runner, so I can get the cooling by itself. All I really need is to know if you can manually enter in dimensions, like x,y,z. Also, if I could pick a point on the tube, and rotate the tube around that point at lets say,

10 degrees. All help would be appreciated, I'm somewhat new to SW, so thanks!

-Kyle from Kalamazoo

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cae_kyle
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You can't just assign dims to a object and drive the xyz or angle, you have to assign mates to your cooling tubes to do this. Although, there are ways to do this, it's a workaround using sketches in the assembly (w/dims) and attaching the parts (cooling tubes, say to a centerline). Or, you can bypass the assembly and Insert/Part the cooling tubes and use the move body command to the xyz distance/angle you want?

Otherwise, you can just move/rotate/drag the tubes in the assembly and attached reference dimensions to the centerlines or faces so you can see what/where your tube is located?

Anyhow, yeah, it would be nice to use dims to drive postion/orientation. Put in a enhancement request like the upteen thousands that SW Corp says they listen too? NOT!

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Paul Salvador

You might try mating them to an envelope part consisting of a sketch. Then when you move the envelope part all the parts mated to it will move with it in x, y, and z.

Just my 2 cents.

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