Clone and Mirror, Rotate, Merge Assemblies
Questions are good. I got a great question in an email last night.
“I am trying program and couldn’t find a way of rotating a door inside of an assembly, is it really possible? If I wanted to do a “strange” design and create two adjacent doors with 90 degree correlation, then how do I do it?”
Well let me tell you about the business man looking for a one armed economist. Why? Because every economist he ever listened to said “on one hand…. on the other hand…”.
On one hand you can’t rotate a door or drawer within an assembly. At least not right now.
On the other hand this video LINK TO VIDEO CLICK THIS show you how to get around that.
A few steps.
- Put door in assembly.
- Clone (or clone and mirror) that assembly.
- Rotate the cloned assembly 90 degrees.
- Merge the two assemblies.
Presto chango — all done.
Don’t forget stretch and shrink as other useful assembly tools in the tools set of our cabinet and furniture design software.
Thanks,
Dave
David Rozewski
My woodworking love started in 6th grade in school shop class. I have a BS in Industrial Technology and an MBA. At my first job, I computerized a production accounting system – the results were positive, and I loved the challenges. I left the corporate world to begin woodworking full time and one of my first decisions was to use CAD for my designs. I found that CAD did not meet all my needs. I wrote a specification of what I wanted and turned it into a prototype. SketchList 3D incorporated in 2007. We completed programming and launched. Today thousands of woodworkers use SketchList 3D.
