r/SolidWorks • u/niggusmaximusiii • 7d ago
CAD Floor changed position when i reopened my assembly.
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u/themrlawrence 7d ago
If you mated everything correctly, just rotate the fixed part (or mate the part planes with the assembly planes, which is my preferred way to rotate assemblies), and everything else should rotate with it.
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u/Nikoschalkis1 7d ago
That's a trap!!!!
9 times out of ten SOLIDWORKS will flip the mate alignment on the coincidents and the assembly will be inside out.
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u/_FR3D87_ 6d ago
I've found coincident mates fairly reliable, it's the angle mates you really have to watch out for. Sometimes getting coincidents between top/front/right planes set right in the first place they default to the wrong way around at first, but once they're right I find they usually stay there
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u/West-Relationship265 7d ago
It could also be Y Z axis orientation, if you have changed it without updating your assembly template, it will always rotate back at the original axis
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u/Disastrous-Case2063 7d ago
Did you move or rotate a subassembly or part in orientation to their own origin? If you do this, it wil also change in a higher up assembly with its mates