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I found that I didn't really do that once I forced myself to avoid hard-coding numbers entirely. If I only defined variables, and defined variables in terms of other variables, I almost never had to do lots of x-y-z shifting.

Not sure what your workflow is or what you're building so of course what you're doing might be more complicated than what I did, or not lend itself to that, but I've managed to avoid headaches like that.




This plus make a lot of sketches describing what each variable is physically, and use geometry to derive dependent dimensions.

Libraries like BOSL2 help with placement/attachment of features: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2




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