Flipping Restraints

[Anonymous]

I was wondering if anyone can provide some guidance on a quick way of correcting the following constraint problem I am having.

I often find with a pin or the like that I have to seat in a hole that if I restrain it with a concentrict restraint to the hole then mate say the head of the pin with the face of the hole I often end up with the pin facing the wrong way.  This is because Inventor recognises the option to constrain the head of the pin to either side of the hole face plane I have selected.  Is there a quick method of flipping this constraint after it is placed?  The only method I have found for fixing this issue so far is to align the pin manually before applying the constraint.  This is more time consuming than I would like.

Thanks,

Andrew

[blair]

Without a picture of the pin/hole, you should be able to use the Constraint>Opposed to solve this and mate the pin to the base edge of the hole.

Easier if you open>edit the pin and create a iMate using the base edge of the hole.

[Anonymous]

Try the insert constraint, and pick the diameter under the head and the surface of the mating hole. 

[EScales]

It sounds as if you just need to choose a different solution option, depending on which type of constraint you are placing.