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Gyvven

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I've been trying to get an array to work and maintain its alignment. I was able to build the shape and get it to flex and maintain it's alignment, but when I tried to array it l lost the ability to flex and stay aligned, or it errors out. I tried editing the group but that errors out. I could get it to work one way or the other, but not both. So, I thought I'd try to create a nested family and see if that would work. I've been trying to align and lock but it only constrains it in Y axis, X moves when I flex it. I've tried moving the origins around, but it just won't stay aligned in the X axis.

I haven't even tried to array the nested family yet. I just want to get it to stay aligned.

I've read a few tutorials, but they haven't provided anything I haven't already tried, I think.

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pchan

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Array is best done by using nested family and when using array, i always choose array to "last", NOT to "second" (it is by default) so try it to see if it works.

I checked your family but not sure which part you want to array

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Gyvven

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Thanks pchan,

I was trying to get the pyramid shaped nested family (Family 4) to go, but as I mentioned, right now I just want to figure out how to make the nested family flex and stay aligned.

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pchan

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Make sure you set up the ref plane accordingly so that the first array nested family is locked to the ref plane. looks like u haven't done that yet.

and make sure the origin of the nested family share the same origin as the hosted family

HTH

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Gyvven

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I forgot to update this, so here it is.

I was able to get it to work without using a nested family. I placed reference planes in the sweep's sketch path and aligned and locked them to the family refernce planes. I don't recall if I tried it anywhere alse in the edit shape mode but I do remember it wouldn't work in the edit group mode.

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