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Mating parts together in an assembly

Mating parts together in an assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Mating parts together in an assembly

- [Instructor] Let's talk about mates inside of SolidWorks. Now that I've got my assembly started I've got individual parts inside of 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 make 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 meet together. So before we do that, let's click on the mate tool bar right up here. So click on Mate, and notice we've got all these standard mates. We had coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric, and so on. Now SolidWorks will actually figure this out for us. If…

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