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Clearance Verification

Clearance Verification - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Clearance Verification

- [Narrator] The clearance verification tool is a really handy tool to be using when you've got to press fit pins, you got slip fit pins, you've got big assemblies that might have a lot of components that need to be assembled together and you want to verify that you've got the right tolerancing on your parts when you're building 'em, so you're not getting interference or any issues and getting the right type of fit. It's a big difference between a clearance fit, a slip fit and basically a size on size fit and you don't really figure that out until you get the parts actually manufactured and it's only maybe a thousandth or even half a thousandths of fit but you're expecting something to be a press fit and all of a sudden it just slides right through the hole and that can really ruin your day. So, this is a great tool to kind of verify those things. So, let's take a look over here under clearance verification and we have the option of selecting a couple components and I can also do it…

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