I mentioned in another thread about wanting Mating for Assemblies and assemblies in general.. and 3D solidworks type constraining. Does anyone else want these too? And is it likely if Shark will ever have such features? If it's a tall order, then I'd like to know so I can stop asking.. These would prevent me from having to switch between my mac/windows side to use solidworks. Its a pain to go back and forth.. Besides my SW seat is from work and therefore not actually mine..

Turbocad and Cobalt have something similar and I mention them because they have mac versions of course..

Understood. I guess I was misinformed about TC. However after recently checking out a demo version of Cobalt, I did notice that you can create parts within assemblies rather than just layers. I'm not sure if it saves these parts individually as files to be "called upon" at any given time. I find that top-down modeling works best for me, as it seems more organized.

I guess what I'd like is more tutorials on here about constraining in more advanced ways. I don't work with extraordinarily complex geometry, but find that the more operations one makes whether boolean or otherwise, the constraints seem to be more precarious and sometimes not update correctly. It is probably just my lack of experience. If someone wanted to develop a pretty complex part using constraints and equations, I'd love to see a recording of it. There were some tutorials on here that helped get me started a while back but none really since..

TurboCAD does handle an ACIS format called "ASAT", Assembly SAT. I've never used it, but according to Spatial's documentation, "its top-level object, 'asm-model' is not an entity", which I take as meaning that it's a part hierarchy. There are also references to .sat files having provision for history streams, which is an interesting thing to consider being exchanged between CAD apps from different publishers.

Misterrogers:

Are you asking about linear /axis alignments?
Constraints can ease this.

Sorry. I ran out of time.

misterrogers,

What are you doing now that could be improved? How do you lay out "shelves" and stuff? Do you have a common baseline / starting point for your constraints, or do you build on them (using a formula or does it just propagate unnaturally for you?). Try creating a basic skeleton of lines, or straight curves :-) Then base your relationships on those lines, i.e. shelving heights from the floor that could then be adjusted by modifying the constraints as needed. Such a skeleton could move cut outs for the shelves and move the shelves to a new height, or low accordingly. Sorry, its late and I'm not making sense to myself any more. Sorry if this just totally confusing. Good night!