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Creating component Mates

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Creating component Mates

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- [Instructor] At this point in the course, we're going to dive in a little deeper into the assembly environment and start using the Mate command to connect these components together. Now, I do want to point out before we get started that the first component in this assembly is this one right here, and notice the little f in the front of its name. That means that one is fixed, so everybody is going to be mated to him. Looking from the side, you can see these components are just kind of free-floating around here and we probably would like to get them all on the same plane. To do so, let's go up to the Mate command. Now we've already looked at the coincident mate a little bit, but I do want to point out this little button right here called Multi-mate mode or Multiple mate mode. Click on that one there and that will allow me to choose one common mate face and then I can choose other mated items. Just click on them here,…

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