What is the best way to do assembly for bolted connection ?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am doing the assembly of Hydro Towers (seen on highways) and since the parts in the whole tower are bolted together, I usually do a mate constraint between them. But what I want to know is, Is there a way to put tolerances between the two wholes I am mating because the holes are usually not a perfect fit and we have 1/16" tolerance on each hole for the bolt to go through.But I do not know of a way to do that in Inventor assembly. I am using Autodesk Inventor 2011.

I have attached a picture below just to have an idea how my assembly is. In the picture it shows a perfect match but ususally there are places where I dont have that match. I have tried using tangent constraint but it does not work.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

AH.

[harco]

Offset mate from centre axis of hole to flange.

If angles not parallel use centre point instead of axis.