From the course: Cert Prep: Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Standard Mates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate
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…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
Sketch Entities8m 1s
-
Sketch Tools3m 44s
-
Sketch Relations2m 30s
-
Boss and Cut features2m 28s
-
Revolve3m 3s
-
Equations3m 30s
-
Sweeps and Lofts3m 21s
-
Fillets and Chamfers2m 3s
-
Linear and Circular patterns5m 2s
-
Dimensions3m 26s
-
Mass properties2m 25s
-
Materials1m 13s
-
Inserting components3m 14s
-
Standard Mates6m 58s
-
Reference geometry4m 11s
-
Drawing view types6m 6s
-
-
-
-