Easy Assembly constraint question

[ilovedividends]

Just learning constraints, seems you cannot use lines from sketches for constraint purposes, but maybe I am wrong...

In the modeled part below you can see I used 'point and direction' to make new plane and extrude the cylinder part in a weird, but specific location and angle.

If I were to start an assembly with only the box and needed to insert the separate cylinder part and get it in this same position what would be the approach to do this? Do I insert the cylinder part as dumb into the box part and subtract it then use typical touch or align constraints or is there some other easy method? Once the assembly is finished can you use a constrained part to subtract?

nx 9

 

[joycejo]

You should be able to use Curves and points for constraints, make sure they are part of the reference set when you ad the component. Try entire part and make sure the selection filter is set to curve.

Once you get your "Cylinder" loaded create linked body to use for your subtraction.

John Joyce
Manufacturing Engineer

NX 11 & 12.01 Vericut 8.0.3

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[mmauldin]

Example file:

Allows control of angle/distance.