CAD Forum - tips, tricks, discussion and utilities for AutoCAD, Inventor and other Autodesk products [www.cadforum.cz]

CAD tip # 7422:

Question

CAD
% platform category

The degrees of freedom (DOF) for Inventor assembly components.

Each unconstrained component in an Inventor assembly has 6 degrees of freedom (3 for translation and 3 for rotation in each axis XYZ).

You can find the basic information about the degees of freedom through the DOF icons via the ribbon View > Visibility > Degrees of Freedom in the Inventor assembly environment (green cubes indicate a constraint to an underconstrained component - it is highlighted when you hoover over a cube).

A more detailed analysis of the degrees of freedm can be displayed through the function Assemble > Productivity > Degree of Freedom Analysis. This function displays a table with all assembly components together with the number of their degrees of freedom (translation + rotation). You can check the Animate option to animate the component DOF. A fully constrained assembly has zero DOF.

Inventor2011

* CAD

23.6.2010 2157x

Comments Tell a friend

applies to: Inventor 2011 ·

See also:
Tip 6761:	Inventor: Making sketch dimension texts bigger

Selected tip: Problems starting Architectural Studio.

Back All CAD Tips

Converting bitmaps to 3D NURBS surfaces (engraving images). « | » Cannot load point list - value out of range.

Have we helped you? If you want to support the CAD Forum web service, consider buying one of our CAD applications, or our custom software development offerings, or donating via PayPal (see above). You may also add a link to your web - like this "fan" link:

CAD: OS: Categ:
Text:	FAQ glossary

Featuring:
Extend your AutoCAD LT productivity with our popular add-on
CADstudio LT Extension More info

Please use these tips at your own risk.
CAD Studio (Xanadu) is not responsible for possible problems that may occur as a result of using any of these tips.


Login/Register:
Visitors: 1891