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.
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.
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.
