Inventor Constraints and Joints both create relationships that set a part’s placement and movement. Most assembly modeling involves a little of both bottom-up and top-down design, referred to by Autodesk as “middle-out.” (So clever, but it reminds me of middle-age-spread, which is to be avoided.) As the assembly design is developed, existing components are added or new ones are created in place.The final assembly will be a collection of parts designed specifically for this project. This involves engineering and uses 3D part modeling to develop a design that’s essentially driven by a unique part. For top-down part design, Inventor users start with design criteria and create the components that are needed.If components don’t exactly fit, the Context command can be used to edit the components and resize them. Constraints are then added to mate the components and align them.
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