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Working with mate types

Working with mate types - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with mate types

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- In this movie, we're going to cover some more of the standard mate types. The first thing I want to do is click on Mate and I'm going to choose the top of this block here and the top of this block to go ahead and put those two on the same plane. Then, click on the green checkmark. Same thing over here. This face here. That fact there, going to put them on the same plane. I'm going to do the same thing with this block here and this block. I want to show you a quick way to do that. Click on the top plane here. Click on this multiple mate mode, turn that on. Now, I can choose multiples at the same time and bring those all together in one mate. Click OK. Now I have these components. They're moving around. They can slide around. Same thing with this one over here. Continue on and make a mate here from the top of that one to the top of that one. That should cover the basic coincident mate. How about parallel. I can click on this face right here, this face right here, and I can establish…

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