From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
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Mating parts together in an assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
Mating parts together in an assembly
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be learning how to create assembly mates. Now what a mate is is a way to attach two components together. Generally, each component will need about three mates to fully define where that component is in space. Now your very first part you bring into assembly more than likely is going to be fixed. So click on this item right here, try to move it around and nothing happens. If you look over here you can see that this is the first item and more than likely, if you right-click on it, you can come over here and it says either fix or float. So if you fix it, it can't move and if you right-click on it again, you can say float and it'll allow you to move it around. Now the other option is if it's already been mated to something, like a coincident mate, that will lock it into the origin and it won't be able to move. So it's either mated, completely, or it's being fixed if it doesn't move in your screen. So more than likely you want to do that to the…
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Starting an assembly3m 41s
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Copying, moving, and rotating parts2m 56s
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Mating parts together in an assembly6m 57s
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Working with subassemblies4m 7s
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Making linear patterns4m 1s
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Creating circular patterns2m 13s
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Using the Toolbox2m 54s
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Downloading internet parts3m 18s
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