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Understanding constraints - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Inventor 2016 Essential Training
Understanding constraints
- Before we begin to learn about sketch geometry, we need to take a minute to learn about sketch constraints. There's two different types of constraints in Inventor when it comes to sketching. There's dimensional constraints and geometric constraints. We're gonna look at the geometric constraints right now. I've gone ahead and created a Sketch Practice.ipt file that has a single sketch with some pre-defined geometry. This will allow us to explore sketch constraints more closely. Let's go ahead and activate the sketch by double-clicking on it in the browser. You can now see that the sketch tab is active and we're ready to look at sketch constraints. A constraint by definition limits or restricts something. In this case, it's gonna restrict the motion that can be made by a piece of geometry. Let me show you what I mean. If you right-click in the graphics window, you have an option to show all degrees of freedom, and if you right-click a second time, you have the ability to show all…
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