Building upon what I learned from pmarc and others in thread1103-360909 relating to datum referencing tapered faces of a part, I attempted to construct the attached drawing. This is a tapered hex pin. I don't feel this drawing is adequately specified, and I have these following questions.
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I'm having troubling constraining this simple static analysis (see attached image). The sheet metal acting as a latch is fixed to ground (door assy) at one end, a force is applied downward in the middle bending the metal strip, and because of the lengthened path retracts the latch at the other...