Assembly 4 Using Fasteners
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:02 pm
Can someone explain to me the proper workflow for adding fasteners in assembly 4? I tend to do them at the end like most people, but putting fasteners on the assembly doesn't seem to work intuitively for me.
What I'd like to happen: from the top level assembly, you can click on any hole and add a fastener of your choosing and it just works. Maybe if it's a sub-assembly, it would take me to the sub-assembly structure and it would add the fastener there.
But when I'm in the top level, I can't even select the fastener button, and the fastener wb doesn't work really either. It will add a fastener but not respect the hole I'm trying to add it to. If I go into a sub-assembly and try to add it there, it usually results in the same problem: the fastener doesn't seem to respect the LCS placement. It gets added to the top level, but it's attached to where it thinks it should be, before the part is attached with the LCS. What exactly am I doing wrong, or how is this supposed to work? Am I missing something really simple?
OS: macOS Mojave (10.14)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23578 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 50c3cbf00579dc4941ca743c25720d016b0453ce
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: C/Default (C)
What I'd like to happen: from the top level assembly, you can click on any hole and add a fastener of your choosing and it just works. Maybe if it's a sub-assembly, it would take me to the sub-assembly structure and it would add the fastener there.
But when I'm in the top level, I can't even select the fastener button, and the fastener wb doesn't work really either. It will add a fastener but not respect the hole I'm trying to add it to. If I go into a sub-assembly and try to add it there, it usually results in the same problem: the fastener doesn't seem to respect the LCS placement. It gets added to the top level, but it's attached to where it thinks it should be, before the part is attached with the LCS. What exactly am I doing wrong, or how is this supposed to work? Am I missing something really simple?
OS: macOS Mojave (10.14)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23578 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 50c3cbf00579dc4941ca743c25720d016b0453ce
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: C/Default (C)