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  Greg Pavlik about 1 year ago

  You can use an Inventor assembly and with some of the right constraints I think that it could fit and move just perfect for what you would need. In the past I have done a number of assemblies that seem similar to what you would need, with an object in place that could move but had restricted movement. If you want I can send over an e-mail with some examples for you to check out. Just send me an e-mail of where/if you want me to send it. My e-mail is gpavlab@yahoo.com
  Have a nice day,
  Greg Pavlik

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  James VerDuin about 1 year ago

  Ah! Models from McMaster Carr. I actually like their site very much. If assemblies are available, the STEP format has always been pretty good. You will have to re-constrain all of the parts in the assembly after the translations have been successfully performed. I'd have to agree with William on the iParts options for multiple versions of the same assemblies. You will need to reverse engineer an assembly and have all of the correct parameters set in your parts for this to work. Lets just hope the OEM doesn't make a change in the future that costs you lots of money!

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     Moldy about 1 year ago

     Thank you!! that helped me figure it out, I will have to learn the iLogic stuff, I have not been able to find much on how it works, I have been dabbling in it here and there.

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  Manuela Pinho about 1 year ago

  Hi.
  you can use Positional Representations.
  Positional representations capture kinematic "snapshots" of assemblies to allow for motion studies and evaluation of an assembly in various positions. Positional representations are saved in the parent assembly and can be retrieved at any time for further analysis or modification.

  They are often used in conjunction with flexible assemblies to both set a subassembly to a given kinematic state, and leave remaining degrees of freedom exposed to the parent assembly.

  See here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICmTGoTDADA

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  William about 1 year ago

  You would use driven constraint for them slidders to open and close....
  You would also use I-parts for diffrent sizes of the same model to your choice.

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     Moldy about 1 year ago

     so what you are saying is that i am going to need to just draw them my self? and make them in i-parts? I am still learning that and really have not got a clue as to how it really works, but i was looking for these drawer slides in pre drawn forms so i can just drop them in my drawings.

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     William about 1 year ago

     If you want to change the size of them so you can have the option then yes you will.