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Drive constraints

Drive constraints - Inventor Tutorial

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Drive constraints

- [Instructor] Now that you've learned how to create constraints, I wanted to take a moment and show how you can drive constraints. Up to this point in the course, anytime you wanted to see motion, you had to left click and drag on a specific item in the graphics window to see that motion, and what we want to do with drive is actually automate that motion. If you don't have the drive constraint.iam open, go ahead and open that now, and let's explore the browser just a minute. Let's go ahead and left click on each of the plus symbols next to the components to see the constraints that we have. You'll notice that we have a mate constraint between the bottom of the dark gray block and the channel, and we have a mate constraint between the two sides of the channel. That helps contain this item in that channel so that it doesn't move outside of it. I can move my cursor right and left, but it only maintains those constraints. To…

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