What is it?

[swcalvert]

Sorry about the subject line, couldn't resist...



In Wildifre, I have designed a sheet metal part with a pattern of holes for my PEM standoffs. The hole pattern was created, by chance, on the green side. I now have an assy file with this sheet metal piece and when I do an auto placement of my standoff (align and insert) on the opposite side from the green side (the side I want the standoff on), I get the alignment of the standoff to the face of the green side (more like a mate than an align). I can mate the standoff the way I want, just not by using auto placement. Does the side on which the hole pattern was made make a difference when auto placement is used?



Steve C

 

[jperkins]

Not really, the green and white side are only to differentiate the sides. Helpful in the flat.



jperkins

 

[jperkins]

When you are laying down turf you should have Green side up but not in sheetmetal. (Message fragments?)



jperkins

 

[swcalvert]

To hazmatt: Because I can. It's there and it's faster than placing them one constrain at a time.



To jperkins: It seems to make a difference, because when I auto placed a component on the green side it worked as designed. When I tried to placed the same component on the non-green side, it moved itself to the green side.



Thanks for the replys



Steve C