Inventor Assembly Fundamentals – Constraints, Joints, and BOMS
The Inventor Assembly environment is used to combine multiple part files, subassemblies, and components to create a bottom-down assembly that communicates how all individual parts are combined and interface with each other. The assembly environment can also be used to edit parts and model subsequent parts if required.
The Inventor Assembly environment is instrumental in ensuring tolerance, fit, overall function, and the overall working of a completed product or subassembly. In previous chapters, we used the assembly environment, but in this chapter, we will cover the best practices for assembling parts, managing a Bill of Materials (BOM), and how you can duplicate and replace components within an assembly.
In this chapter, we will learn the following:
- Constraining components in assemblies – the best practices
- Applying joints in assemblies
- Applying and driving Motion constraints
- Duplicating...
