Wait... what? Separate sub assemblies? Can you have assemblies of assemblies? And then constrain between them? Assembly of random blobs... another assembly of blobs... constrain the whole assembly against the other (by one surface in each)? Oh fffff.... Ah nevermind, I've gone back to not using ASM3...

.. keeping trying... :ugeek: I am sure you will get there... I assume? you are familiar with: http://help-freecad-jpg87.fr/02_ass_ind.php it is very good! Thanks, I have seen that link before... but maybe a year or so back... maybe I need to re-study it or do some tutorials. For the life of me, I c...

Whole new weird problems now... keeping trying...

Maybe I need to rebuild, but start with something basic like the first sponge-bracket, and lock a surface of it in place with the ASM3 "Locked Constraint"? That would be a good plan :mrgreen: I am waiting for results.... I'm on it... will post back in an hour when I've re-built :)

Is there some magic trick to not having things suddenly jumble all over the place? still trying to untangle your files ;) but one thing is clear (as far as magic trick is concerned) - where is your "Locked" constraint???? You have to start assembly by locking first assembly part, so that ...

Mostly... there's a Blower Backplane, but it's built from a ShapeBinder from the Blower, so dunno how you'd extract that from the assembly without breaking the part.

I'm expecting the project to have a lot of parts... which I'd like to re-use across other projects (batteries, voltage convertors, wheels, etc)... so I try to keep reusable elements in a "library" ready for inclusion in other projects re-usable "parts" are all very well and I un...

Sorry, I'm probably not helping myself with what is probably a confusing structure.

My thought is that anything unique to the project, to have those parts in the project... and anything re-usable in other projects, to have their own file. Dunno if that's a standard approach or not, sorry!

Thanks for having a look :) Also, apologies for the frustration and "precious weekend" comment... I didn't mean to sound overly negative. I just didn't expect my weekend progress to be quite this slow :). If I can get over these niggles, I'm expecting the project to have a lot of parts... ...

Hello everyone! Is there some magic trick to not having things suddenly jumble all over the place? I've now been sat here for about 4 hours pulling my hair out trying to make parts in my assembly align correctly. I've got: a blower fan and a bracket for it a kitchen sponge, with a bracket to hold it...