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Mating parts with Path Mate

Mating parts with Path Mate - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Mating parts with Path Mate

- [Narrator] The path mate needs two things, the first is obviously a path which is generally a sketch, and the second is a point to run along that path. So over here you can see I've got this little cone and at the bottom of this cone, I need to have some type of a point to establish. Now actually I added this point already, so here it is, point number one, so if you didn't have that, you need to open that part and go ahead and just create a sketch or add a point right to the bottom of that part. Alright, the next thing we need to do is of course, establish this line, or the path we want to have it on, and that's actually in this part. So we open that part up, you can see right there. There's the path and it's just a basic sketch on that top surface. Alright, close that down. And we're back over here, let's go ahead and establish the Path Mate. Come up to mate, come over here to advanced mates, and then come over here to path mate. So there it is. And as far as the path, we're going…

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