Hello everyone,
This is my first time posting so I will do my best to communicate this effectively. I have an assembly exported from Solidworks as a STEP file (exploded) and I am looking to rotate an object on its own axis within the assembly. When I attempt to utilize the Tilt parameters the object makes a large translation in space as well as rotates, as if orbiting a center point a considerable distance away (perhaps the origin of the assembly). I have looked to un-reference the part to the assembly and attempt to rotate it, but it still continues to translate it considerable distances seemingly unaffected.
This does not seem to be a unique problem to myself, and I have seen solutions suggested to similar issues on here that one needs to introduce a dummy object to reference the desired part to. However since the assembly does not note the coordinates of each of its parts (all parts are listed as (0,0,0) as seems to be the standard), determining how to place the dummy object has been rather difficult. I am having to guess where the correct alignment would be as opposed to placing it directly on axis with it. I have been looking in the manual under reference objects and non-sequential but have found little clarity here.
Am I missing an obvious way to find object placement information? Or am I overlooking a simple way to rotate the object? Any insight would be greatly helpful as these are my first experiences in non-sequential mode.
Thank you
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