and here some help from spaceclaim:
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and here some help from spaceclaim:
Thanks guys most helpful . I think I am looking at an abridged user manual for the free version and need to download the full user manual, which is what I think the link from @dxp took me too. The key word is indeed SNAP, in DSM's parlance "Snap to a co-planar face". The user manual is a bit naff because there is no mention of the receiving face turning yellow when the faces are "snapped"; this is very very brief because you only have to go a few microns too far whilst moving and it switches back to the original colour - but I soon sussed it. Once again many thanks for your help especially as you are both non DSM guys
Ye be most welcome matey....arrrgggghhhhhhh.......
Now, where's me parrot....he flew off wit me eye patch........arrrrrgggghhhhhhh
Oh, your welcome!
In short: on the orange object, you need to move the *yellow ball* (=the reference anchor) of the arrows to the side you want to match, after which the yellow ball turns into a blue cube. Thus here you need to place it on the right outside of the orange item. Then you need to click the red move-arrow, select the "up to" function, and then click the left side of the green item. Then the selected side of the orange item will snap to the selected side of the green item.
Thus: select the object(s) to move, select the source plane which has to match, select move direction arrow, select the "up to" function (this is probably what you missed), and select the destination plane to move the object upto.
Here is the DesignSpark Mechanical tutorial on moving (Youtube):
Be sure to study the tutorials too on Pulling, and Selecting, on the same Youtube-channel (you need to scroll down quite a bit):
https://www.youtube.com/user/DesignSpark/videos?disable_polymer=1
I would recommend that you download all these tutorial (in high resolution 720p) and save them locally for future reference. In Firefox you can install add-ons like "video downloadhelper" to achieve this. I don't know for other browsers.
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kmanstudios 1,120
I am not a DSM guy, but maybe there is a 'snap to vertex (poly/face, surface, edge)' option?
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dxp 23
Hi,
did you use components? I tried something similar:
Please try to play with the move-command and Up-To.
(I'm working with Inventor and SolidWorks and could not find the proper direct axis-align-command.)
Cheers,
dxp
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