Automatic rotation of the CAD model during a measurement routine?

dcoss, It sounds like you have the main idea and are mostly there. The problems you may be having with transforming the models is that each model needs to be done from the CAD Assembly dialog.

Here is how that is done. Below is the CAD Assembly dialog showing just one model in the Assembly Tree.


If you right click on an item it gives you a number of options, one of which is to Transform just that item. You can transform just one item at a time, or an assembly of items, or if you choose the item on the top of the model tree (Named 'Models' in this example), you can transform all of the models at once.


Here I am transforming just the one model. I checked the Keep original box so a copy is made during the transform operation. Then, click apply.


That one operation gives you this. I'll then click the OK button to close the Transform dialog. If you do any more tranformations at this time, it will affect the original model, not the copy.


To further transform the copy, you can do that from the CAD Assembly Dialog. You can see below there are now Two models. You can now transform just the second model by right clicking on it from the Assembly Tree. From here you can also change the color of each model, make one transparent, make copies of entire assemblies, or ​​replace a single model without needing to re-transform it (provided the new model has the same origin).
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dcoss, It sounds like you have the main idea and are mostly there. The problems you may be having with transforming the models is that each model needs to be done from the CAD Assembly dialog.

Here is how that is done. Below is the CAD Assembly dialog showing just one model in the Assembly Tree.


If you right click on an item it gives you a number of options, one of which is to Transform just that item. You can transform just one item at a time, or an assembly of items, or if you choose the item on the top of the model tree (Named 'Models' in this example), you can transform all of the models at once.


Here I am transforming just the one model. I checked the Keep original box so a copy is made during the transform operation. Then, click apply.


That one operation gives you this. I'll then click the OK button to close the Transform dialog. If you do any more tranformations at this time, it will affect the original model, not the copy.


To further transform the copy, you can do that from the CAD Assembly Dialog. You can see below there are now Two models. You can now transform just the second model by right clicking on it from the Assembly Tree. From here you can also change the color of each model, make one transparent, make copies of entire assemblies, or ​​replace a single model without needing to re-transform it (provided the new model has the same origin).
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