Creo Parametric - Assembly Basics (Part 3) - How to Create an Assembly

[@crawdaddy270]

Good stuff. I’ll share an assembly trick I learned years ago from a then old Pro/E expert: always try and make your assembly constraints follow what you would do in real life if you were assembling it yourself. You’ve done that here with aligning to the bolt holes and personally I feel it makes the assembly more robust in the long term. The other thing I do is always constrain fasteners to the threaded side of the hole, whether that’s a tapped hole or the nut side, that way if something changes with the non tapped side, I move the hole, position changes because I didn’t choose a stable dimension scheme for the hole, etc., you’ll notice quicker that there is a change. Typically the tapped side is blind in the assembly and if you’ve constrained to the non tapped side the bolt will move with the hole, but you may not notice that the thread is now in the wrong spot but if you constrain to the thread, there will be a mismatch on the non threaded hole that will look odd around the fastener.

[@RichardBangura-us5qd]

Great!! Well explained.

[@yousefabdelsamie5983]

Hi Dave, Is it possible to adjust the 3d dragger position relative to the part brought in? Thanks in advance.

[@இயற்கைஉணவுசமையல்நம்மாழ்வார்]

if i want to be creo expert how long it will take

[@CADPLMGuy]

That's a very open-ended question. It depends on how often you take classes, how much you work in the software, the variety of projects you work on and positions you hold, and more. It also depends on how you define 'expert.'