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Mate parts with Lock Rotation

Mate parts with Lock Rotation - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Mate parts with Lock Rotation

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about lock rotation. Now, most of the time when you're building an assembly, you have to add three mates to fully define a part. So maybe you'll mate the top to the top. Maybe you're going to make a concentric mate or something like that. And then just generally have some kind of rotation. So if you look at this model here, you can see that I've already got a couple of these screws in here. And notice I can spin this component around right here. Now I want to mate these two together. so you have a couple of options of how you might want to mate that. You might choose this surface here and that surface there, which is a really good way to mate that. But you also have the option of using a concentric mate. So I'm going to choose the inside of this hole right here. And then come down here and grab whatever that surface is right there. And notice that we automatically get this little concentric mate.…

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