I have an Autocad drawing of a man, with the head/arms/legs etc each drawn as a closed polyline. I am successfully able to import this drawing into a sketch, but I am not able to do what I want with it. I am a relative novice using SW, so that is probably the reason.
My intent is to create a sketch (or an assembly) where I can insert this man into a drawing, and then change the position of his legs, etc by modifying angle constraints.
In my last attempt, after importing the drawing to one sketch, I would copy all the objects and then paste them into a new sketch (named, Head, Neck, etc) and delete the objects I was not using on that particular sketch. Then I wanted to constrain each sketch of a part so that its center of rotation would be placed appropriately on the body. This overall method was not working for me. There was no way to move an entire sketch as a unit... I guess I am attempting to access them as though they were AutoCAD blocks.
A more experienced co-worker says that the only possible way to do this is to go to AutoCAD, and save each individual part of my man as a separate drawing and then import them one-by-one in to a new part, and then finally create an assembly from the SW parts.
I understand the logic of this method, but because of its tediousness, was looking for an alternative. (I do expect to be doing similar things in the future) Perhaps as I get more experienced I can write a program to automate the process.
Any recommendations for now?
Joe Dunfee