Trying to create an assembly for a fire pit gazebo using 6 x 6 posts and have started off creating a lot of planes and axis's so I can use the geometry of the assembly to bound parts and get compound cutting angles. Not working out of the box.
First off, my attempt to first create a part within the assembly was a non starter because all the assembly reference planes and axis I made went away when the assembly went into new part mode. That's probably just me not remembering how to make them visible because I do remember doing such things in the past.
My next attempt was to make a small coupon cross section of a 6 x 6 post I could then constrain into the assembly and proceed to edit it within the assembly so I could extrude it out to the various planes I created and then use other planes or solids to also subtract from it to get the various compound angles I'm looking for.
I started adding constraints to my little coupon which I thought were vary basic to lock it in 3 ways and I right off the bat starting getting swaths of them showing red highlights saying they were bad. And on my next re-attempt I got a mate constraint that highlighted green but the part plane chosen did not slide over to the assembly plane chosen and I could still move the back and forth in the constrained direction. Very frustrated and not happy.
The final straw was shutting Alibre down and upon restarting and getting back into the assembly, all the constraints were highlighted red again.
First off, my attempt to first create a part within the assembly was a non starter because all the assembly reference planes and axis I made went away when the assembly went into new part mode. That's probably just me not remembering how to make them visible because I do remember doing such things in the past.
My next attempt was to make a small coupon cross section of a 6 x 6 post I could then constrain into the assembly and proceed to edit it within the assembly so I could extrude it out to the various planes I created and then use other planes or solids to also subtract from it to get the various compound angles I'm looking for.
I started adding constraints to my little coupon which I thought were vary basic to lock it in 3 ways and I right off the bat starting getting swaths of them showing red highlights saying they were bad. And on my next re-attempt I got a mate constraint that highlighted green but the part plane chosen did not slide over to the assembly plane chosen and I could still move the back and forth in the constrained direction. Very frustrated and not happy.
The final straw was shutting Alibre down and upon restarting and getting back into the assembly, all the constraints were highlighted red again.