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Creating Key Holder Assembly - Tutorial for beginners
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create an assembly using the two parts that we created in the following link -
Creating Key Holder Part - Tutorial for beginner.
Follow the steps as shown below...
1) Open Inventor 11 by double clicking the Icon on your desktop. When "Open" dialog box appears click on
"Standard.iam" in default tab and click ok as shown in Figure 1.
2) Now we are in new assembly file, let us place the components created in
Creating Key Holder Part - Tutorial for beginner. Click
on (Place Component) button in "Assembly Panel", you are
prompted to locate the part which has to be placed in the assembly work area. Locate the "key holder body part a.ipt" file
through the "Open" dialog box which pops up and click on open, as shown in Figure 2.
3) Once again click on (Place Component) button in "Assembly Panel"
. Let us locate the other part that we created in Creating Key Holder Part - Tutorial for beginner,/b> and open it as explained in the above step. In Figure 3 you can see
that both the parts are placed in the assembly work area.
Figure 3.
4) Click on (Place Constraint) button in "Assembly Panel".
When "Place Constraint" dialog box appears select "Insert" as type in
"Assembly" tab as shown in Figure 4.
(Place Component) button in "Assembly Panel", you are
prompted to locate the part which has to be placed in the assembly work area. Locate the "key holder body part a.ipt" file
through the "Open" dialog box which pops up and click on open, as shown in Figure 2.
(Place Constraint) button in "Assembly Panel".
When "Place Constraint" dialog box appears select "Insert" as type in
"Assembly" tab as shown in Figure 4.
