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- Super obvious, but you should always try to organize parts within your assembly into various labelled folders. How these folders are set-up and divided in your assembly is really up to you and depends on what's going on in your assembly. However, one folder that is always good to have is a "Fasteners" folder, which will hold any individual fastener files used in your assembly.
- Using the e-box as an example, all parts have been organized based on what panel they are located on. Other external features like the interior components, actual connector CAD files, and fan components have also been placed in folders. The "Fasteners" folder is also present in this tree
- Try not to go over-board. sometimes less is more.
- Using the e-box as an example, all parts have been organized based on what panel they are located on. Other external features like the interior components, actual connector CAD files, and fan components have also been placed in folders. The "Fasteners" folder is also present in this tree
Mating Tips
- When starting your assembly, make sure your "base part" has it's part origin mated to the assembly origin. This will hopefully ensure that the assembly planes stay in the correct position.
- Try to mate faces/planes together rather than edges/points when possible. Face/plane mates are typically more stable than edge/point mates, as if you make any edits to a feature edge/point mates can easily get displaced and completely break the mate in assembly.
- Always make sure that you select "Delete child features" when deleting components in your assembly! This will make sure that all mates associated with the deleted part are ALSO deleted. If you don't have this box selected, the mates will remain in the FeatureManager tree as a suppressed mate, which can be quite confusing when reviewing and fixing mates in an assembly in the future.
- Use the profile center mate when possible! The profile center mate is a very powerful mate that can be used to replace a coincident + concentric mating pair.
- When using concentric or profile center mates, lock the rotation of the components unless rotation absolutely 100% needs to be flexible! Pretty much all fasteners should be locked concentrically.
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