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Standard Mates

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Standard Mates

- Once I have all the parts into the assembly, now I'm ready to start adding some mates to control the look and shape of this assembly. So, first things first, I'm going to go ahead and add a mate, right here, I'm going to hold in my right mouse button, and spin this part around, and I'm going to get it close by to this pin. The first thing I do, whenever I'm doing an assembly, is get the components close to the right orientation, and location of where they're going to be mated together. Then I'm going to jump into the Mate toolbar, click on Mate, and click on the outside of this pin here, and the inside of this hole. Now, if I didn't want to do that, I could also choose the outside of this, the outside of this, go back. There's a lot of different options of how you can mate things together, and choosing the right option. The best thing to do is to say it out loud, "I want this hole around this pin." "I want the top of this pin flush with the top of this part." And that's my…

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