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Constraining the arm to the base

Constraining the arm to the base - Inventor Tutorial

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Constraining the arm to the base

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- Now we're taking a look at our Assembly that we have so far. We have our feet, our base and our ring supports assembled together. And if you're not already in the Assembly file, you can go ahead and open that one up. Because our next part that we're going to bring in is the arm. I will go over and select Place Component and grab the Caddy arm. We can place that arm anywhere. Because we're going to apply that Virtual glue to certain parts of this to make it stick to our base. So in this case we've used different types of Constraints so far. But on this one, we're going to use a simple Mate Constraint. With this, you can select the face or and edge whichever you prefer. I'm going to go with doing an edge on this one. So I'm going to select that inner edge of the arm. And then I'm going to swing around and select what that actually should be glued to which is the edge of this base. And now we have it pretty much aligned with our base. But again it's not if I select Apply real quick and…

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