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Making components rigid

The Rigid tool locks the orientation and position of two components to each other.

See the printable Assembly constraints reference chart for descriptions of all assembly constraints.

The Rigid tool is enabled when you select appropriate objects that belong to different components.

To define a rigid condition

1. Hold Ctrl and select an edge or face of the two components that you want to remain stationary with each other.

   You can also select two components in the Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components..

2. Click Rigid in the AssemblyHierarchy of components and subcomponents showing relationship within a design, as shown in the Structure tree. In manufacturing, a unit fitted together from manufactured parts. See Assembly tool, Component group on the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab.

   The constraint is added to both components in the Structure Tree.