Difficulty when dragging parts in a flexible assembly, need better control.

[ADSKDJW4]

In this example there are two flexible assembly of the same instance. In the two pipe elbows below when dragged it is difficult to locate the exact rotation needed if you are looking to swing one elbow only. It would be great to have a selection on each elbow that you would not want to rotate or not.

In this example it shows only one piece rotating and it depends where you select it.

Most of the time when selected and dragged about both elbows will move and difficult to re-position.

When trying to use the flexible drag both elbow move and there is no clear direction to which you can manipulate it back.

Thank you,

Don

[Anonymous]

Hi Don, in the past, flexible assemblies have frustrated me to no end. In order to work around the short comings of flexible assemblies, I generally try and accomplish different configurations of the same assembly with Positional Representations. I never ever drag. For your case, I'd keep the same things that you have flexible, and then fully constrain them in place with Angle mates. Then I'd create however many different positional representations I need using the fully constrained angles.

I completely agree that flexible assemblies need some work.

Alex

[ADSKDJW4]

Hello Alex,
I appreciate your support here on this thread. Myself and the customer ended up using workplanes on each elbow using the angle constraint to simulate the rotating of the top elbow only. Took us like 40 minutes to maneuver it into position. We just need better design control on something like this.
Thank you for your reply,
Don Warner
Inventor Product Support
GCSO-CSS Frontline Technical Support

Autodesk, Inc.
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