Snapping the parts together.

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overdose
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Snapping the parts together.

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Hello all,

I am newbie with freecad and trying to draw a monitor case for my old laptop's monitor. First I created all parts in different documents but I needed to see the parts together to check the sizes and measurement. So I copied all documents to parts and combined the parts together from the documents.

I didn't use any assambly workbench. I just want to put the parts together (If it is possible).

My problem is while I was trying to assambly the parts, some of them are not matching due to angle. I tried to decreased rotation increment to have more resolution but couldn't success. I added the FCStd file.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Snapping the parts together.

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It might be better to use one of the add-on assembly workbenches with their constraints. Otherwise, you could try with add-on Manipulator Workbench.
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Re: Snapping the parts together.

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overdose wrote: Wed Aug 10, 2022 4:52 pm ...
I would do it this way


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPoTEGCreo

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Re: Snapping the parts together.

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thomas-neemann wrote: Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:08 pm
overdose wrote: Wed Aug 10, 2022 4:52 pm ...
I would do it this way

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Hello Thomas,

Thank you for the video. It seems your solution is more satisfying and I tried it. After my trying I could snapped the edges succesfully but the angle problem was not fixed. Please see the picture of the result and the short video about what I have done. May be the process I have done was wrong. Thank you.

https://streamable.com/271u18
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Re: Snapping the parts together.

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overdose wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:56 am ...
here is a suggestion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjylMAd5JCU

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Re: Snapping the parts together.

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You should check ALL placement (Parts + Bodies) values because some angles are not null (you can see this looking from the top in isometric view).
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