From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
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Add the buttons to the assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
Add the buttons to the assembly
- [Instructor] Now that we've made the button part, we can actually add it to the assembly. Open the button part, and then also open the assembly. It's got the two halves of the controller and the PCB. Then from within this assembly, go to the Assembly tab, Insert Components, and select the controller button. And let's place it in the assembly by left-clicking somewhere about there. Now let's fix it in place using Mates. Expand the button part in the parts tree, select the front plane, and then hold down control and also select the front plane of the assembly, and then release control and add a coincident mate. Next let's fix the left-right position. So select the right plane of the button and then hold down control and also select the right plane of the assembly. And this time, let's add a distance mate, which is this one. I'm going to set that as 75 millimeters, so now we're fixed left-right and up-down, but we can still…
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