advanced mates

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Advanced Mates

Mike Puckett, Certification Specialist DS SolidWorks Corp


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What Well Cover

Mating Tips

Symmetric

Width

Path

Linear/Linear Coupler

Distance With Limit

Hinge

Multi-Mate

CamRack & Pinion Gear Mate

Screw Mate


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3 Typically

Can a part be fully constrained with one mate?


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Mating Tips

Dr Ruth?

Try to use a common mate reference

Long chains of mates take longer to solve

Do not create mate loops:

Do not over define mates:


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More Mating Tips

Drag components to test their available degrees of

freedomIf a component is causing problems, it is often easier

to delete all its mates and re-create them instead of

diagnosing each one.

Whenever possible, fully define the position of eachpart in the assembly. Assemblies with many

available degrees of freedom take longer to solve,

and have less predictable behavior when you drag

parts.



Symmetric Mate

Allows two similar entities to be symmetric about a

face or planeFeatures allowed:

Points

Planes or planar faces

Spheres of equal radiusCylinders of equal radius



Width Mate

Centers a tab within the width of a groove

Tab references: (purple)Two parallel planar faces

Two non-parallel planar faces (with or without draft)

One cylindrical face or axis



Path Mate

Constrains a selected point to a path

Also define pitch, yaw and roll


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Linear/Linear Coupler Mate

Used to establish a translation relation between

componentsCan pretty much use any entity to create this mate


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Distance With Limit Mate

Limits the movement of a component within a

specified range of travel allowing some freedom ofmovement

Limit mates take longer to solve


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Hinge Mate

Creates a Concentric and Coincident mate at once

Can also limit the angular movement


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Multi Mate

Use one common reference to mate multiple parts

with the same type of matesCondense mates into a folder


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Cam Mate

Cam profile MUST be a series of TANGENT extruded

faces that form a closed loop (or do they?)Mate a Plane, Cylinder, or Point

Cam Profile Can Be:

Lines

ArcsSplines


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Rack & Pinion Mate

Linear translation of one component (the rack)

causes circular rotation in another component (thepinion)

You can mate any two components to have this type

of movement relative to each other. The components

do not need to have gear teeth.


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Screw Mate

A Screw mate constrains two components to be

concentric, and also adds a pitch relationshipbetween the rotation of one component and the

translation of the other. Translation of one component

along the axis causes rotation of the other

component according to the pitch relationship.

Likewise, rotation of one component causestranslation of the other component.


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Happy Mating, Mates


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