mcjHelpMeAssembleThisMachine - V3 - build accurate models in Studio

mCasual

for example people that spend their whole Sunday trying to figure how to build version 2 of their CNC router

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjhelpmeassemblethismachine

 

 

 

the set of ccordinates is now complete : origin, min center max 

 

richardandtracy

Attachment Mates in DS?!? Whatever next?

That will prove useful. Really useful. Makes it possible to model parts without needing to do the assembly in the modelling package.

Coincident mates for selected surfaces rather than bodies could be useful too, but not even sure what you'd have to do to select flat faces in DS.

Thank you.

Regards,

Richard.

 

Richard Haseltine

Added to the index, thank you (in the Creation post) but I'm not sure my description is right.

Eustace Scrubb

Might I suggest also cen[Axis]min/max[Axis] options?  In fact, it might clean up both code and UI to reference both pieces by dropdowns: 

Align Part A [Min/Center/Max] [X/Y/Z] with Part B [Min/Center/Max] [X/Y/Z] allows for 81 permutations, using only four buttons, rather than 15 permutations with a separate button for each, as above.

mCasual

Major Update

Version 2 lets you resize and reposition an object with precision

and when 2 objects are selected you can now specify the distance between the 2 objects min/cen/max

instead of a distance of zero ( which  was the case in version 1 )

 

Silver Dolphin

Nice. Thank you

richardandtracy

That looks like a really useful update. Thank you.

Regards,

Richard

mCasual

another update: V3

now you can do measurements and moves base on the source and target object's Origin, Minimum, Center, Maximum