Assembling according to a coordinate system 1

[mloew]

There is an old thread on this topic that is out of date: Assembling according to a coordinate sys (thread559-117970). I am using SolidWorks 2007 and want to accomplish the same thing: assemble a component using two coordinate systems. Can this easily be done? The only alternative I see is to create a local system of mutually orthogonal planes on the reference system and use standard mates. Using coordinate systems is far more elegant as there is only one datum feature with all the information needed.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Matthew Ian Loew

http://www.daxcon.com

 

[MadMango]

If you are working on a large "system" and have several different teams working on separate sub-systems of the whole, each team needs to be able to work independently of the other. One way to achieve this is by using skeletons that define critical features. These might be mounting locations, enclosure limitations, electrical interfaces, etc. It is much easier to work using a skeleton instead of a single (arbitrary?) 0,0,0 origin.

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