The C Clamp

My latest project was a c clamp. Its size initially made it hard to dimension, as it was larger than my regular measuring tool reached. It's shape confused me for a while, but after looking at it and applying some dimensions, my Inventor replication was really close to the actual piece. The hardest part though was definitely animating it. I knew what to do, but I couldn't get inventor to move the right parts in the right way. I eventually decided to play constraints between parts to my advantage and move only one part, dragging the other parts with it.