Need help with simple Inventor Assembly

[Anonymous]

I need to assemble these two parts so that they remain mobile, like this: 

I attached my parts here. Thank you very much!

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

When posting (especially attaching files) make sure to include what version of Inventor you're using.  Why didn't you post your assembly?

Update:  These are Inventor 2015 files..  I would also suggest that you apply service pack 2 (https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-inventor-2015-service-pack-2.html?v=2015) for Inventor 2015 and update 5 (https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/downloads/caas/downloads/content/update-5-for-inventor-2015-service-pack-2.html?v=2015) for SP2.  You are still using the original version of Inventor.

[Anonymous]

My bad. It's inventor 2015. I didn't post my assembly because I don't have one. I don't know how to do it. I just put the pieces the way I want them to be for the pictures but no assembly at all.

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

More information in how you want to control the part that will pivot/rotate.   Should it freely spin 360 degrees or should it be restricted per a certain angular distance?

How much experience do you have with Inventor and assembly constraints?

[Anonymous]

Freely. Very little experience tbh.

[Mark.Lancaster]

Start your assembly and place the part that will not rotate...  Since you have limited skills.. Simply ground the part that will not pivot/rotate..  Meaning in the Inventor Browser pane, right mouse click on the part and select Grounded.

Now bring in the other component that rotates and place it somewhere on the screen.  Next start an assembly constraint and follow the images and then select OK.   Depending on what you're doing you may want other assembly constraints to control both components.   But remember the first component is ground (in space)

Update:  So basically this simple "insert" constraint is aligning the center line/axis of the hole and mating the faces of the holes between the 2 parts.

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

.... I didn't post my assembly because I don't have one.....

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You image is of an assembly.

So therefore you do have an assembly.

Or are those images of someone else's assembly?

I fixed the unconstrained and missing dimensions in your part sketches.

(Well maybe "fixed" is the wrong word as some of your geometry does not make logical sense to me.)

Check your hole positions and keep in mind that we cannot manufacture perfect parts - allow clearance for motion.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

.... I didn't post my assembly because I don't have one.....

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You image is of an assembly.

So therefore you do have an assembly.

Or are those images of someone else's assembly?

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It's possible those parts are part of a time machine design that he's working on, and that in the near future he will complete, and then he will travel back and post the pictures of the assembly from he future, because he forgot how to create the assembly ...

[Anonymous]

The pieces are not a really assembled. I just put the pieces one next to each other in different positions to make it look like the assembly I need. It is an Assembly file, indeed, but the pieces are not joined or related in any way.

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi magperez,

See the attached Inventor 2015 assembly file, copy it down and place it next to your part files and it will find them.

Also see video. I added an angle constraint, because I think you're going to want to do that in the future.

Also, when you get the time machine complete (again?)  I'd like a turn. I left a pair of shoes I really liked in a motel in 1998, and would like to go back and get them.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com