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Re: trying to make a piston in inventor
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Originally Posted by gren737
yes...air cylinder

and i got it.
i haven't checked out your links yet..but for any of the rest of you trying to do this

use a mate command and grab the axis of each part...not the faces...

-sarah
Another approach would be to make a Tangent constraint between the cylinder and the piston surfaces. Be sure to use the INSIDE tangent. This way you will be able to drag the parts and make them move without having to drive them. The only problem is you won't have collision checking, at least not in 6.0, I can't speak for 8.

It works for me

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