Creating the assembly

After you create a part instance or a model instance, you apply a succession of position constraints and positioning operations to position it relative to other instances in the global coordinate system. This section describes the tools that Abaqus/CAE provides to position and constrain part and model instances. This section also describes how you can replace a part instance.


In this section:

The position tools in the Assembly module
How the position constraint methods differ
How conflicts can arise between position constraints, translations, and rotations
Positioning a part or model instance using the Translate To tool
Replacing a part instance