Problems with assemblies

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Hi
I have a problem with an assembly. I have drawn a castor wheel,with a 80mm
bolt( much like a shopping trolley),by fixing the bolt, I can rotate the
wheel and castor, in all the directions that it should rotate and not in the
directions that it shouldn't.. the problem comes when I insert this assembly
in to another assembly (25mm square extruded box section). it refuses to
rotate at all. Even if I don't constrain it to the other parts in the second
assembly, and just fix the bolt. I am only using the concentic and
coincident mates in the castor assembly. Another problem that I have is that
if I try to contrain (coincident and concentric) the castor to the tube
insert( which contrained to the box section) I get an error stating that the
assembly is over constrained! but without these constraints the castor would
fall off!! Oh! one more thing, Smart fasteners, AAhhhh! Am I trying to use
this the wrong way? I have a 25mm square box section with two, "4mm tapped
holes"(not cut extrusions) and a planel with two 4.2mm cut extrusion holes.
I want to fix the panel to the box section using two, 4mm panhead screws and
washers, but smart fasteners states that there are no suitable holes??
Hmmmm, I will learn this program one day, maybe? lol

 

check your Online User's Guide under "Flexible Sub-Assemblies" to solve your
first problems.
About Smart Fasteners, the general idea is that they should fit into
HoleWizard holes with matching size (according to ISO, ANSI...)

Philippe Guglielmetti - www.dynabits.com

 

Pay particular close attention to the requirement to have different
configurations of the subassembly if you use it more than once in your
upper level assembly. The configurations can be identical, but you
can't have more than one flexible subassembly otherwise. SolidWorks
will give you rebuild errors.

'Spork'