- [Narrator] The clearance verification tool
is a really handy tool to be using
when you've got to press fit pins,
you got slip fit pins, you've got big assemblies
that might have a lot of components
that need to be assembled together
and you want to verify that you've got the right tolerancing
on your parts when you're building 'em,
so you're not getting interference or any issues
and getting the right type of fit.
It's a big difference between a clearance fit,
a slip fit and basically a size on size fit
and you don't really figure that out until
you get the parts actually manufactured
and it's only maybe a thousandth
or even half a thousandths of fit
but you're expecting something to be a press fit
and all of a sudden it just slides right through the hole
and that can really ruin your day.
So, this is a great tool to kind of verify those things.
So, let's take a look over here under clearance verification
and we have the option of selecting a couple components
and I can also do it to the whole assembly if I want to,
but that's a little bit more than I generally like to do.
So, go over here to selected items.
Let's go ahead and choose this one right here
and that piece right there and calculate.
Now you can see here it's giving me a clearance
of basically a thousandth between those two parts
and that's pretty much what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for a sliding fit between these two parts
and that's just about perfect.
So, you can see here we've got
a value here of minimum acceptable clearance.
If I could put something like that in to my design,
I think maybe say something like a .001
or like a thousandth, then you can say over here,
I want to run a clearance verification
and anything that fits in to that category
is going to show up down here.
So, it's going to show me which components
are below that clearance verification.
If I just want to use the selected items I have here,
I can calculate it one more time.
Of course, it's showing me that
one thousandths between the two.
You have a few other options down here at the bottom
as far as the component view.
Go through and look at the options
and similar options to what we've seen before
as far as making it transparent, using the current views,
setting up as a wire frame or hidden.
I prefer this one hidden, so it just kind of really showing
you the components you're actually looking at
and you're just verifying between those two components.
So, again, this is a really handy tool,
especially if you're looking for sliding or press fits
inside your design, you want to just verify everything's
good before you send it out for manufacturing.
Spending a few extra minutes in this tool here will
definitely save you hours in the real world.