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Advanced Mates 2011

SolidWorks Advanced Mates How Many Mates Do We Need? Mating Tips I (c) Dassault Systemes I Confidential Information I Try to use a common mate reference Long chains of mates take longer to solve Do not create mate loops: If a component is causing problems, it is often easier to delete all its mates and re-create them instead of diagnosing each one.

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Advanced Mates 2011

SolidWorks Advanced Mates How Many Mates Do We Need? Mating Tips I (c) Dassault Systemes I Confidential Information I Try to use a common mate reference Long chains of mates take longer to solve Do not create mate loops: If a component is causing problems, it is often easier to delete all its mates and re-create them instead of diagnosing each one.

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What Well Cover

Mating Tips Symmetric Mate Width Mate Path Mate Linear/Linear Coupler Mate Distance With Limit Mate Hinge Mate Multi-Mate Cam Mate Rack & Pinion Gear Mate Screw Mate

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How Many Mates Do We Need?

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3 Typically Can a part be fully constrained with one mate?

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Mating Tips

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Try to use a common mate reference Long chains of mates take longer to solve Do not create mate loops:

Do not over define mates:

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More Mating Tips

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Drag components to test their available degrees of freedom. If a component is causing problems, it is often easier to delete all its mates and re-create them instead of diagnosing each one. Use Sub-Assemblies at the top level assembly.

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Symmetric Mate

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Allows two similar entities to be symmetric about a face or plane Features allowed:
Points Planes or planar faces Spheres of equal radius Cylinders of equal radius

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Width Mate

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Centers a tab within the width of a groove Tab references: (purple)


Two parallel faces Two non-parallel planer faces (with or without draft) One cylindrical face or axis

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Path Mate

Constrains a selected point to a path


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Linear/Linear Couple Mate

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Used to establish a translation relation between components Can pretty much use any entity to create this mate

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Distance With Limit Mate

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Limits the movement of a component within a specified range of travel allowing some freedom of movement Limit mates take longer to solve

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Hinge Mate

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Creates a concentric and coincident mate at the same time Can also limit the angular movement

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Multi Mate

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Use one common reference to mate multiple parts with the same type of mates Condense mates into a folder

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Cam Mate

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Cam profile must be a series of tangent faces that form a closed loop Mate a plane, cylinder, or point Can profile can be:
Lines Arcs Splines

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Rack & Pinion Mate

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Linear translation of one component (the rack) causes circular rotation in another component (the pinion) You can mate any two components to have this type of movement relative to each other. The components do not need to have gear teeth.

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Screw Mate

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Constrains two components to be concentric Translation of one component along the axis causes rotation of the other according to pitch relationship

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