Link up all parts with mates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

- [Instructor] We have now added the cooler parts to the assembly on this side here, and like the heater, they need some fasteners adding to hold them in place. We're going to add them in a very similar way to how we added the screws to the heater side here. Firstly, we're going to screw the cooler bracket onto the base in the same way that we did for the flywheel bracket and the heater bracket. Firstly, we need to edit this base part. Left click on it and press edit part, which is this fourth icon here. Then select the Hole Wizard; this is on the Features tab. And we're going to add some more countersink holes like these four here. So it's a countersink hole, ANSI metric, flathead screw, size M4 and the end condition is through all. For the position, click on the bottom face to start positioning the holes here, and then as before, let's go to view from the top, and just line up the screw holes with these holes in the bracket. So there should be one here, and then another one here. Press okay to add those holes, and then exit editing the parts and now we've got two new holes added. We're using the same screws as we used here, so you can hold down control, left click and drag, and then release the left click and that will copy a screw over. Then you can just use mates to fix them in place. So let's add a concentric mate and then a coincident mate. Then let's just copy this screw over as well, and do the same thing. Remember when you add your concentric mates, if your screw part disappears, it might be something like this. So it might have accidentally gone up inside this part. If that happens, you can just hold the mouse over this part, press the tab key, and that will hide it. Then you can move your screw back down into place, and add that coincident mate and then finally you can just reshow the bracket part. So if you look down the parts tree, you should see a part that's slightly ghosted out like this. Just click on that one and press show. Next, we need to add some screws to screw this cylinder onto the bracket, and these are size M4 by 20. So it doesn't matter whether you use the tool box or the step file, it's the same file. So it's actually this one here, so let's hold down control, and left click and drag, and then release and just add another one of those screws in. Then let's rotate it to roughly the correct orientation, like this, and mate it in place, using a concentric mate. You can mate it with any one of these small screw holes. And then let's finally just fix it in place by adding a coincident here. So now we need to add three more of these screws. So we could do copy with mates, or we could just copy them by dragging them and adding the mates manually, but it's probably a little bit easier if we do a circular component pattern. To do this, go to the Assembly tab, and click on the dropdown underneath Linear Component Pattern. And then choose Circular Component Pattern. Firstly, we need to set the pattern access. This is where the screws will be patterned around. So click in this first box, and then just click inside this circular edge here. Then make sure you've got equal spacing checked, so it should say 360 degrees here. We want four instances, and for the components to pattern, just click in this box, and then choose that screw. So now we can see from the preview, we're going to add three new screws. Press okay, and those are added, and if we go to the bottom, we can see we've got this circular pattern, and it's got three screws underneath it. Now finally, all that we need to do is add two final screws here and here, and they're exactly the same size as the ones on this side. So we can copy those over. Hold down control again, and left click and drag, and then release the left click. And then do the same with this one, so we've got those two new screws in place. Let's just rotate them around, so they're about in the correct orientation, and then finally, we can just fix them in place using mates, so firstly, let's add a concentric here, and then a coincident on the head. So that one is fixed, and then the last one, let's add another concentric, and then the very last mate, another coincident. Now we're looking really good. We've got basically all of the main parts. We've got all of the fasteners. You should be able to drag your parts around like this, and everything should move correctly. The only thing that we need to add is a connection between both sides of the engine. So in the next videos, we're going to look at joining these two cylinders together. Now you can save your assembly.