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Constraints and reference sets

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Constraints and reference sets

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- [Instructor] Now I have one more component that I need to constrain into position. And that's the valve arm. I have it hidden so let's go ahead and turn that on. With the valve arm, I wanna take and basically constrain it through this center plane between the two bosses. Now you'll see I have these tapered faces here, right? These angled faces aren't really gonna do me any good as far as positioning this correctly in the model so what I want to do at this point is go back to that almighty reference set. Talked about it before and it's really important you understand this. So inside of that reference set, I'm gonna right mouse click, go up to Replace Reference Set, I'm gonna say Entire Part. That reference set is now showing me everything that's inside of this component, that valve arm. This plane, because of the way it's designed, runs from center to center of the arm. I can use that plane to help constrain this arm into position. So with that, I'm gonna go into Assemblies. I'm…

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