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An enclosure has outer length L and a centered rectangular pocket of length P. The pocket is currently driven by P = 0.8 × L, which gives the specified 10 mm wall at each end when L is 100 mm. Future versions will change L, but both end walls must remain 10 mm. The centering relations are already correct. How should the length control be revised?
Correct answer: C - P = L − 20 mm
A rectangular steel plate is 80 mm long, 50 mm wide, and 12 mm thick. A single counterbored hole runs perpendicular to the 12 mm thickness: the through-hole diameter is 10 mm, the counterbore diameter is 18 mm, and the counterbore is 4 mm deep from the top face. The entire hole lies within the plate. There are no other features or mass overrides, and the assigned density is 0.00780 g/mm³. What mass should Mass Properties report to two decimal places?
Correct answer: B - 361.56 g
Which finding would explain a mass difference between two otherwise identical single-body bracket files? Their rebuilt geometry, volume, surface area, and center of mass agree. The same aluminum material is assigned at part level in both files. Each mass report includes the entire body, and neither file uses Override Mass Properties.
Correct answer: A - A denser body-level material overrides the part-level material in the heavier file.
A Through All cut has opened a hole in the wrong body as well as the intended one. The multibody part contains a housing and a separate tooling blank behind it; the cut starts in front of the housing and runs toward the blank. Both bodies must remain present. The hole must stay through the housing as its thickness changes, while the blank remains untouched. Which edit meets both requirements?
Correct answer: D - Keep Through All and restrict Feature Scope to the housing body.
Complete the Service row of a part's Design Table. The column $STATE@Cut-Relief controls a feature that removes a lightening pocket; $STATE@Boss-Lug controls a feature that adds a mounting lug. The features are independent. Service must retain the lug but omit the pocket. In the order Cut-Relief, then Boss-Lug, the entries should be:
Correct answer: D - S, U
Compact is a derived configuration of Standard. In Standard, length is 120 mm and width is 40 mm. Compact has an explicit 90 mm length override, while its width remains linked to the parent. Standard is then changed to length 150 mm and width 50 mm without applying an All Configurations edit. After both configurations rebuild, which dimensions belong to Compact?
Correct answer: D - Length 90 mm; width 50 mm.
A housing has this feature order: solid Boss-Extrude, inward Shell of 2 mm, then an R6 fillet applied only to an outside vertical corner. The inside corner remains sharp. The revision must preserve the original exterior envelope and produce concentric R6 outside and R4 inside corners with a uniform 2 mm wall. There are no nearby faces to limit the offsets. Which revised order produces the required geometry?
Correct answer: A - Boss-Extrude → outside R6 fillet → inward 2 mm Shell.
A shaft must rotate in a fixed bearing housing without sliding axially. Its cylindrical surface has a concentric mate to the housing bore, with Lock Rotation cleared. A coincident mate locates the shaft shoulder against the housing end face; both faces are perpendicular to the bore axis. The shaft rotates but neither translates nor tilts, and the mate solver reports no errors. A reviewer flags its remaining rotational freedom. Your response is to:
Correct answer: A - Retain the mates; the remaining freedom is the intended shaft rotation.
Equal side clearances must be maintained as a sliding tab and its guide slot are resized independently. The slot has parallel sidewalls. Existing mates already control tab orientation and support height while allowing travel along the slot. Without adding reference planes or width equations, select the mate that keeps the tab laterally centered.
Correct answer: B - A Width mate using the Centered constraint between the tab and slot faces.
Before a powered indexing arm is built, a designer must check that it will not strike a fixed protective guard during its commanded 0°-110° sweep. Interference Detection reports no overlap at either endpoint. No intermediate positions have been checked. What evidence is still needed before the modeled sweep can be called collision-free?
Correct answer: C - Collision detection during the full commanded sweep, with both the arm and guard included.
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