Snapping point of components
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@unknownuser said:
If it was an endpoint or midpoint that you moved it by then it will most certainly relocate the snap point for the next component from the browser.
Sorry, I maybe was not very clear in my response - but there is no problem with the 'snap point' of new components brought in from the browser, even after moving any already placed - it was only trying to move them after they were brought in where the grip on the component being moved was lost.
I take your point about not having to rotate them when bringing them in - which is what I wanted, but having tried with various settings in the component 'glue' options I still could not get them to work - but I will try again following your suggestions and see what I can do.
Thanks again for your responses and patience.
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Thanks for that Wo3dan.
I followed your example making a test panel and it seems to work (don't understand what I was missing before!!!)I now have to re-address my existing components to set the gluing plane and axis.
These are quite complex dynamic components so I was wondering if there is any way to edit the component to change the gluing plane/axis settings without 'exploding' the component and re-making it - as I'll have to re-input all the attributes for them if I have to re-make them.
(I did a search and seem to be able to find only references to setting these attributes when a component is first made.)
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Hi Peweuk,
In the component browser, you can right click a component and go to > Properties where you can change gluing/cutting attributes.
Then you can right click on a component in the model and choose "Change axes" to do what it says. The red and green component axes will define the gluing plane while the blue axis will be "X-ed out"
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Thanks Gaieus.
I already looked in there - but
The 'properties' dialog only shows the file location, instances etc, but nothing that can be altered.
If I select the component and select the 'edit' tab, it shows the 'Glue to' option, but it is greyed out and cannot be changed
That's what was puzzling me - hence my question. I thought that perhaps the option to change the 'Glue to' state would only be available if a 'Glue to' state had been entered when the component was created - but it is greyed out on one that is set to 'Glue to : any' as well.
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Well, if (in the component browser) you select the edit tab (SU 7), everything is grayed out. But if (still in the component browser) you right click on the component and select the Properties item from the context menu, it will still put you to the same edit tab but now the options aren't grayed out but you can change them (Windows version).
Quite annoying and I'd even call it as a bug but at least there's a workaround.
Edit: now I tried a couple of times again and nothing was grayed out. :was nothing to edit.shock:
Edit2: My bad... In the first case I didn't even selected the component in the comp browser to edit.
Sure it was grayed out - there was nothing to edit 
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I found the problem
I am running Vista, and the only way to see the 'Edit' tab when using 'properties' is to open Su with 'run as administrator'
Who'd have thought it
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Oh no
I thought I had found the answer, but after editing a component and saving it the Edit box is greyed out again.
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Sorted it now. I found the only time the 'edit' window allows changes is if I open the file in which I created the component.
However a new issue has arisen which I need to look into. I had an 'animate' attribute set in the original component, but having now changed the gluing axis it is doing weird things.
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Well, note that may of the attributes of DC's are set to the axes so when it comes to working with DC's, it is more important to watch the axes than ever.
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