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Driving constraints

Driving constraints - Inventor Tutorial

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Driving constraints

- [Voiceover] Now that you know how to place constraints, let's look at how we can drive constraints. Up to this point in the course, all you've ever done is you've left click on parts, and you've moved them by dragging. What drive constraints will do is allow you to create a constraint that Inventor will change the offset value in an automated fashion to show motion. Let me show you what I mean. I'm going to right click in the Graphics window and select Constraint. And from within the dialog box, I'm going to set the Flush solution so that we can create a connection between the end of the block and the end of the base. Now these are flush and are perfectly aligned. While we're in here, Inventor's placed us in the offset and let's take a minute and look at what that does just as a reminder. In the offset, if we were to hit one, you'll see that this block moves further away from the end of the base. If we backspace and enter two, it continues its way down the channel. I'm going to go…

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