Removing one part from another in Assembl

[mechsalmon]

Hi,


I have a baseplate, which is an assembly of three ejector pins and a base plate with holes in it. I have a number of fixtures with I want to put holes in. What I want to do is assemble the fixtures with the baseplate and ejector pins make the holes in the fixtures with a combine or merge operation. Every time I do this I'm told either, I can't because of packages components whatever they are. I've tried to do it by activating the fixture in the assembly mode too. Somebody said something about component intersect, and turing this off but I'm not sure how to do this. any help would be appriciated.


Another issue I'm having is that I want to remove the volume of a hollow cylinder I have from a block, to give me the outline so that i can use this as a fixture. I've tried to cap the top using swept blends but can't. If anyone could help with this too that would be great.

 

[dross]

I believe that Pro is telling you that the component is "packaged", which means that it is not properly constrained to the assembly. Re-define any packaged components (they have a different icon in the model tree) to be constrained to the assembly.


Don't know about your other problems.

 

[cpoirier]

You can use the search tool to find packages and frozen components. If the tree is not so big just look for the symbol (two lines like a pause button). Try using a skeleton model. I used to shy away from using them and now I find I can not live without them.

Chris

 

[dross]

BTW, what you are looking for is an assembly cut.