Im getting better with SW and I have found a couple of things that have made me a little faster. The parts I have started working on now are square with a hole in the middle with a couple of bolt circles around the hole. I have some mounting holes in the corners of the square block. I want everything to be made off of the center hole so I did an offset plane from the front face and the right face. Then I put an axis through these two planes to get the center of my part. I make the mounting holes on the lower right corner use the mirror to make the top right then mirror both to the other side to get all four. Is this the best way? I don't know but it does seem to work.
The next think is the bolt patterns in the middle. I have 2 sets of 4 one is 3/8 tapped hole and the other is a 3/8 thru hole. I would like to just put the hole on the plane but it doesn't want to use the plane so I dim off one plane and off the side. Is there a way to do it from both planes? Ok second part the thru holes are 45 off from the tapped holes. I don't know a good way to sketch them without doing the math on my own. There has to be a fast way to do this.
I have also been using the mirror when I put parts into the assy. I check the apply mates but they don't seem to mirror and I have to add them to the mirrored parts. Whats the trick?
Thanks for the help and suggestions.