Creating an instance of the solid hinge piece

You will now create an instance of the solid hinge piece. To separate the solid hinge piece from the instance of the hinge piece with the lubrication hole, you ask Abaqus/CAE to offset the new instance along the X-axis.

  1. From the Create Instance dialog box, toggle on Auto-offset from other instances.

    The auto-offset function prevents new part instances from overlapping existing instances.

  2. From the Create Instance dialog box, select Hinge-solid and click OK.

    Abaqus/CAE closes the dialog box, creates the new dependent instance, and applies an offset along the X-axis that separates the two hinges, as shown in Figure 1. (For clarity the datum geometry has been removed from the shaded view in Figure 1 and subsequent figures by selecting ViewAssembly Display OptionsDatum.)

    Figure 1. Create an instance of each hinge piece, and apply an offset to position them in the viewport.