Hello guys,

So I've been busy for some time making my design in SU, I did it via draw tracing a 3 view but did it in in 2D since it will not have a full fuse anyway.
So the parts are mostly done, but now I want to assemble them in SU to see how things are looking, and to judge some parts for positioning. (like all you pros do it, have the parts inside the safe cutting area, and have the 3D model ("painted and all") a bit futher on in the .skp file)
I tried various camera views and buttons and things but have really no clue how to go about.
I viewed various tutorials, which where very helpful, they got me where I am now(!) but no info on literally "picking a piece up, rotating it into the correct plane, and connecting it where it is supposed to go..."
So, is there a tutorial on that, or any instructions?

regards,
Martin

PS, different Q: what does the explode command do?

 

I normally, always group instead of making components. That's because components, I think, are saved in your drawing even when you delete them? You would want to use components, if you had multiple parts that are identical. With components, when you just editing one of them, they all get updated with that change.

There is a rotate tool, but I almost never use it. The move tool, is much easier to rotate groups with. And of course you need it to move stuff, anyways. Check out this youtube tutorial:

 

Thanks, you guys are fast!

I need to group parts first, and then it should be easy, as shown in the tut here above!

Once again, thank you!
Martin

 

I prefer the rotating tool. When you use the rotating in the move tool you can't snap to the axis' but you can in the rotating tool.

 

Thanks E-T!