I am in the process of doing a drawing for a mailbox post and am having trouble orientating the 2 components "vertical & horizontal posts" in the assembly drawing. I have incorporated a "crosslap" joint where the poles cross but am having trouble rotating the individual posts in the assembly level drawing to get the joints to fit together, any help appreciated
assembly level part fitting/manipulation
- Thread starter danwrnr11
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HaroldL
Alibre Super User
If you have an assembly started could you upload that as a Package file? (File>Package>Create)
You've uploaded two each of the vertical and horizontal posts so I my guess is that you want the assembly to look something like this:
So the first thing is to right click on the vertical post and select Show Reference Geometry from the pop up menu. Then apply a constraint between the parts' default planes and the assembly workspace planes. Then apply constraints between the horizontal post and the vertical post using the faces of the cutout notches.
Here's a v26 assembly for reference.
You've uploaded two each of the vertical and horizontal posts so I my guess is that you want the assembly to look something like this:
So the first thing is to right click on the vertical post and select Show Reference Geometry from the pop up menu. Then apply a constraint between the parts' default planes and the assembly workspace planes. Then apply constraints between the horizontal post and the vertical post using the faces of the cutout notches.
Here's a v26 assembly for reference.