Assembly3 ConstraintPointLineDistance
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Assembly3 → ? → Point line distance |
Workbenches |
Assembly3 |
Default shortcut |
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Description
This tool builds a link between two objects of an assembly and fixes the distance between them and the orientation to each other. The selected elements of each object or more precisely their implicit coordinate systems (ICS) are used to position one object to another.
Usage
- Place two objects into an assembly.
- Select one point element of one object and one linear edge element of the other object.
- Press the
Point line distance button.

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