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Mating parts together in an assembly

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Mating parts together in an assembly

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about Mates inside of SolidWorks. Now that I've got my assembly started, I've got individual parts inside my assembly. I can grab and I can move these components around on my screen by left clicking on them and dragging them around. I can rotate them by right mouse clicking on them and rotating them around. Now we need to actually connect them together using Mates. So the best way to mate something together is to actually say what you would like to connect together out loud. It might sound a little funny to do but if you actually say it out loud it really makes it easy to figure out what things we need to click and mate together. So before we do that let's click on the mate toolbar right up here, so click on mate. And notice we've got all these standard mates, we've got coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric and so on. Now SolidWorks will actually figure this out for us. If we…

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