Solid Edge Ground

[matt_johnson35]

Hello, I have just started working with Inventor this week and I am trying to constrain a part inside a packaging cell but I am having a bit of trouble getting the third contraint to work. My boss says there is a command in Solid Edge called Ground and that you could pull a part in and use ground instead of constraining it like I am doing. Is there an equivalent in Inventor 2014? If not could someone help me with the third constraint.

Thanks 🙂

[mdavis22569]

Yes .. RMB on the object ... and scroll down and you'll see where it says Ground You'll then see a thumbnail icon on the item in the browser tree

[mdavis22569]

[Anonymous]

You need to attach the parts in your assembly. You can ground your parts but I would not recommend this. The only part that should be grounded is the base part. If you attach the full assembly parts I will take a look at it tomorrow.

I hope this helps. 

[matt_johnson35]

I tried that and it Grounded the whole assembly. I will try and upload the drawing entire thing tomorrow, I wasn't thinking that I needed to upload everything lol.

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! I think you are looking for Flexible and Ground. Try the following and see if the behavior is what you are looking for.

1) Open the subassembly of interest in its own window.

2) Right-click on the part -> check Ground.

3) Go back to the top level assembly -> right-click on the subassembly -> check Flexible and check Ground.

After that the rest of underconstrained components in the subassembly will have DOF on top-level. Please note that these components among themselves cannot be constrained on top-level.

Thanks!

[matt_johnson35]

Flexible was what I was looking for, it seems to do the same thing as constraining the subassembly in three places. Thanks very much for everyones help.