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Magnetic mates

Magnetic mates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Magnetic mates

- [Instructor] Magnetic Mates are a really great thing that's been added to SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS 2017. In SOLIDWORKS 2018, these Magnetic Mates are still there and they are even easier to use now. The first thing you need to do before you can use Magnetic Mates though, is to establish the actual connection points and the ground plane for each one of those components and we're going to be getting into that in the next movie. But for right now, let me show you how to use Magnetic Mates. Now whenever you have a component that has a Magnetic Mate connection, all you need to do is just drag that component like this one over here close to some other connector and notice you get this little purple or pink line that connects the two pieces together. Go ahead and let go and those two components will just slide together. Same thing over here, if you want to grab a component like this one over here, drag it over close to somebody else, let go, it's going to slide over to the next instance…

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