I just read the "Assembly mates and best practices" FAQ559-871, including Scotts example download of an assembly using planes. I also recently gathered much info on using Layout Sketches to drive an assembly. Can these techniques be used in conjunction with each other, or do they both serve a similar purpose for me to choose what works best? If I create a layout sketch that contains several blocks that define a series of plates and then relate the blocks to each other, then my incontext assembly parts are created and positioned from the geometry in the sketch blocks. I know I can combine some planes with this to take advantage of both techniques, but is one technique preferred over the other?
Our companies main business is to design and build progressive dies. If at some point we purchase an add-on for progressive die modeling, I wonder how the add-on package handles assembly of the die components. Extensive use of planes, layout sketches, or a completely different way?
Help please, dazed and confused !!!
Tom..