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Creating composite iMates

Creating composite iMates - Inventor Tutorial

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Creating composite iMates

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- In this video, we're going to take a look at those situations, where, when you mate two parts together, it takes multiple constraints for them to be fully constrained with one another. So we're going to, first, start here in our Step Assembly, and we're going to right-click, and we're going to bring up our Create iMate tool, and we first want to create a constraint called Center Flush. And that's because we're going to click right here on A Flush. That means we want the positive side of both of our planes to be facing the same direction. And we're going to come up here to the Origin planes, and we're going to click here on the YZ Plane. So go ahead and click Apply. Then we're going to create a second one that we're going to call our Height Offset, and we're going to click on this plane right here, and before we click Apply, we actually want to create an offset. In our case, it's going to come out as a negative number, and we want that to be negative nine. Now, the last part is, we…

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