How to anchor assembly part w planes

Hi,

I thought I knew how to do this but, I guess not.
What is the procedure for anchoring part(s) in
an assembly, using various planes? For example,
locking a part so that it can't move in the
x-y direction. This would be exclusive of
the positioning mates.

TIA,

Dennis

 

Mate the part planes or orthogonal faces to the assembly planes using
coincident or distance mates.

 

There is a lot to be said for centering the parts around the origin, when
you need to mate parts this way.
Where I work, there are a lot of parts created inplace and used elsewhere.
This means I am constantly creating refence planes to help align parts in
the assembly.

Regards
Tony O'Hara.

 

you can still work incontext by starting a new part, saving it, insertint it
into the assy, mating it and then designing incontext. It sounds like a lot
but it beats all of those crazy positioned planes!

 

My problem was that the people who created the parts that are required to be
used elsewhere, was that they designed top down and therefore inherited the
origin of the assembly file.
The method you described, is the way I do in context parts. I start by
producing a disk in the orientation I want, insert into the assembly and
modify in place. My part origin is then exactly where I want it.

Regards
Tony O'Hara