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Hi, I hope this isn't too much of a burden on anyone. I'm just getting started with Inventor and I'm having trouble mating parts to the pole in this assembly.
Ed
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More information about your design intent would help a lot, but just from your picture...
It looks like you want the cross bar at a certain distance from the axis of the pole, and from the top of the pole. Since the pole is tapered, you could use work (or origin) features to accomplish this. Example, the origin axis of the pole to an origin or work plane on the cross bar. The dimension of these constraints could then be controlled as a parameter, or in an iAssembly,... or even with ilogic. (I wouldn't go there until you have the basics down though). Look at (if you haven't already) some tutorials on basic assembly techniques and practice with an assembly that you can trash if necessary.
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@cbenner wrote:More information about your design intent would help a lot, but just from your picture...
Hi Chris, the intent it just to model a pole configuration for construction purposes, BOM, etc. I wanted to design the parts so that I could quickly assemble the parts without applying a lot of constraints. For example, I created an iMate for the insulator and the standoff bracket that works well.
Ed
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Hi Ed.Jobe,
I'd use a construction surface in the horizontal part. Then an insert constraint between the base of the surface and the base of the pole, and a mate between origin planes of those two parts. Once assembled, you can turn off the visibility of the construction surface in the horizontal part.
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I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
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