Assembly3 - DOF

[Medestrac]

Hello,

Is there any tutorial on DOF and how to not over-constrain an assembly?
With two "square parts" I usually use "Same orientation" + "Point coincident" to remove the 6 DOF without over-constraining...but with more parts or round parts I don't know.
Here is an example: two cylinders with a 2mm hole, two flat bar with two 2mm holes at each end.

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The first flat bar is locked
I use "Plane coincident" on the hole edge of the bar and the hole edge of the cylinders -> 5 DOF out, the last one (Rz) doesn't matter
Idem for the second cylinder.
And now the last bar... I can use the same method but it will over-constrain. Shall I constrain the second bar with only one cylinder? Use both? Try to constrain with the first bar? What is good practice, what is the way of reasoning?

[Shalmeneser]

(BTW, Sketch004 is horrific.)

[FBXL5]

"Plane coincident" leaves one DOF unconstrained: The rotation arund the z axis. This can be fixed/locked by setting the property "Lock Angle" of this constraint to true.

[Medestrac]

Shalmeneser:

Sketch004 is horrific

True, but it's not the topic, and it's not really constructive...any hint how to improve this sketch?

FBXL5: Thanks, I didn't know about this "Lock Angle" property

More than a solution for this specific topic, I'm more looking for a "Good practices" advice that I can apply generally.

[adrianinsaval]

I would make just one circle then use a PD multi-transform, make another sketch and re-pad the sections where there shouldn't be holes (center and corners), looking at his tree it seems that's what shalmeneser did too.

[Shalmeneser]

The file is in my 1st message above the image.