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Re: Multi-level assemblies with motion

Thanks everyone. Turning parts to "flexible" did the trick. I'm not a big fan of demoting assembly parts into sub assemblies. I prefer the Bottom-Up approach to assemblies because the same parts/sub assemblies occassionally get used in several locations around the robot.

That being said, I've found the Top-Down approach for part modeling really helps if you're constructing an assembly, because as Nemo said, you want to constrain to axes and planes for better stability.
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