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Have you been through any of the tutorials in the Support and Learning section ?
If you can share your model that would probably help most.
I looked at the 1 minute into and I am not overly impressed!
The very first thing you should do is to fully dimension an constrain the very first sketch. As you can see this can change the geometry of all of your parts and should not be done by accident.
The second thing I am noticing is that the first all components are created and then sketches in theses components are created, but the actual geometry in the component in not created until later. That can be done without adverse effects, but it does not really make any sense.
It also makes a design quite hard to read.
In the second sketch the holes have a fixed constraint applied, which is why they are shown in green. This also does not have any directly adverse effects but, again, this is unnecessary. Also applying fillets in the sketch and trimming is unnecessary and quicker to do on the solid.
Then the components and sketches for the linkages are created. The sketches
are not referencing the sketch origin or other project references and don;t contain al necessary dimensions.
Not only is that incorrect in its entirety, but the existing base sketch - the second sketch at the top level in this design could have easily been utilized to do this correctly and much more efficiently.
In turn then as-built joint could have been used resulting in significantly fewer steps to create this assembly.
The next thing that caught my attention is how grounding has been applied.
- It is applied too late in the process. The first component should have been grounded immediately after creation.
- The other ground operations appear to have been created because the parts move around when "regular" joints are applied and then later instead of deleting these unneeded ground operations from the timeline the parts are un-grounded resulting in even more unnecessary operations in the timeline. This could have been avoided when using as-built joints.
The little round pegs can also be designed in place and then rigid joined to one a triangle, or link. They don't need a revolute joint.
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