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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] In this movie, we're going to be learning how to create assembly mates. Now, what a mate is is a way to attach two components together. Generally, each component will need about three mates to fully define where that component is in space. Now, your very first part you bring into assembly more than likely is going to be fixed. So I click on this item right here, try to move it around, and nothing happens. If you look over here, you can see that this is the first item, and more than likely, if you right-click on it, you can come over here and it says either Fix or Float. So if you fix it, it can't move, and if you right click on it again, you can say Float, and that'll allow you to move it around. Now the other option is if it's already been mated to something, like a coincident mate, that will lock it into the origin, and it won't be able to move, so it's either mated completely, or it's being fixed if it doesn't move on your screen. So, more than likely, you want to do…

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