Plane to assembly sketch?

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Plane to assembly sketch?

onefjef (Agricultural)

(OP)

18 Dec 10 10:34

Simple example to explain my question:
An assembly with two identical cubes spaced apart a given distance x from their nearest faces.

How would you create an assembly work plane that is always x/2 from each object (always in the middle of the two). I know you can constrain a work plane to a sketch with projected geometry so how would you do this?

Thanks for any help.
Jef

mflayler (Mechanical) · Answer 1 · 2010-12-20 09:31:22

Unfortunately the Mid-Plane work plane option is not available to the Assembly interface.

If there is a mate constraint that keeps those cubes x distance apart you can use a parameter equation of x/2 offset from one face of the cube to accomplish what you want. There are some more complicated ways, but this is probably the easiest.

tmox (Mechanical) · Answer 2 · 2011-01-11 10:00:18

mflayler - that's it exactly. create a constraint betweent the cubes. open functions (Fx) and note the d# of the contraint. Create a work plane offset from cube by d#/2. you can drive the constraint for various positions.

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