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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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Can a part be fully constrained with one mate?
How Many Mates Do We Need?
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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:
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.
More Mating Tips
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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
Symmetric 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
Width Mate
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Constrains a selected point to a path
Path Mate
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Used to establish a translation relation between components
Can pretty much use any entity to create this mate
Linear/Linear Couple 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
Distance With Limit Mate
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Creates a concentric and coincident mate at the same time
Can also limit the angular movement
Hinge Mate
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Use one common reference to mate multiple parts with the same
type of mates
Condense mates into a folder
Multi 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
Cam 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.
Rack & Pinion 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
Screw Mate
SolidWorks Advanced Mates