From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 New Features
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Misaligned concentric mates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 New Features
Misaligned concentric mates
- [Instructor] Another great feature that's been added to SolidWorks 2018 is the ability to make a concentric hole mate without the holes being perfectly aligned. Let me show you what the problem is. First thing's first, let's go up and measure the holes. So click on measure, I'm going to choose from this hole here over to this hole over here, and you can see the distance is four point one. All right, now if you come down here and measure the hole. This hole here over to this hole, this is four point one two five. Now they're pretty close, but they're not exact, and traditionally you would not be able to do a concentric mate between the two holes, but in reality there's a lot of times you end up with this type of condition when you maybe have a rounding error, and you're rounding that four point one two five maybe to just four point one, and now you've got a couple components you're trying to mate together, and they're just not working. Now in SolidWorks 2018 we have that ability…
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