Move Assembly to Origin in SolidWorks

Learn how to reorient a complex assembly to a new coordinate system when the model was misaligned from the start. For basic assemblies it may be easier to start over; however, when the assembly is larger and more unwieldy, you may want to try and salvage it. This video will show you some tricks how to do just that.

This is a real example from my class of a clock assembly that a student was struggling with. They needed the full assembly in a certain orientation to make an in-context part, but when they tried to reorient the assembly, they got a ton of errors. This tutorial will show you some ways to organize your assembly so that you can reorient the assembly while maintaining most of its functionality. You’ll learn how to create a reference point, a reference coordinate system, switch between a float and fixed assembly, create sub-assemblies from already assembled parts, and much more. Take a look!

Video contents
0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Solidworks assembly problems
1:20 - Solidworks align to origin first assempt
2:43 - Solidworks organize assembly tree
3:48 - Solidworks make subassembly from assembly
5:50 - Final assembly clean-up
6:20 - Solidworks align to origin with organized assembly
7:37 - Solidworks create new coordinate system
9:00 - Solidworks align origin

[Joe_The_st]

Hi there, I want to update and contribute a faster / shortest way to reorientation the whole assembly just by mate the first part (the first fixed part in the assembly you have added) with the origin of the assembly then you done. By the way, after searching lots of forums and places, it looks like you are the only person do this video on the topic of "how to rotate the whole ASSEMBLY in So thanks for your video, it is very helpful! I can only figured out this method after watching your video

[purrydash]

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed.

[nearth]

Modality.
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[DonaldsonMotors]

Thank you, solved my issue. Keep it up.

[charlestoneoyoo]

Thank you so much for this, this came handy

[dgnytes]

Good video however you need to click around slower; common issue.