Assembly constraints determine how components in the assembly fit together. As you apply constraints, degrees of freedom are removed, restricting the ways components can move. Assembly constraints ...

When complex motion gets too difficult, these 3D modeling workarounds can help. A while back, I was challenged to model the action of an energy chain. These plastic track assemblies capture and ...

To replace a component via the Inventor API, you can use the ComponentOccurrence.Replace method. This method takes two parameters: 1. The full file name of the file to be used to replace the existing ...

Setting rotational, slider and cylindrical joint limits helps designers replicate realistic movements, test design scenarios. Autodesk Inventor CAD models are a useful design tool because they clearly ...