From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2019 Essential Training
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Understanding constraints - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2019 Essential Training
Understanding constraints
- [Instructor] 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 going to look at the geometric constraints, right now. I've gone ahead and created a "sketchpractice.ipt" file that has a single sketch with some predefined 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, and in this case, it's going to 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…
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