I have a small assembly that is a rectangular tube with 4 cross drilled holes in it. then at the assembly level
you insert 4 bushings into these holes. then at the next level assembly you insert this sub-assy between
2 plates that have holes in them and then you run bolts through the plates and bushings in the sub-assy.
My issue is I am trying to develop tolerances that will allow manufacturing more flexibility and so what I need
to know is if I relax tolerances on dimensions will my assy still go together.
I have tried using Tol Anylyst study and that is way too cumbersome. So I modeled the tube with the holes drilled
in it at worst case scenario and now would like to have solidworks insert this bolt into this hole(but don't worry about
making them concentric) just keep the boundries from overlapping each other.
I will attach a picture to help show my dilema.
Actually my VAR tech support people came through for me. The way to do this is using the "Limit Distance" mate. I actually put ref. points on either end of one part and then I use this mate to define how far away from each other the point and the axis can be(which is half the clearance between the mating parts) and voila! If used an axis from each mating part then I don't get the end result which was to allow the internal part float around inside the other one.
thanks all!