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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
Cam
Rack & 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
freedom
If 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 each
part in the assembly. Assemblies with many
available degrees of freedom take longer to solve,
and have less predictable behavior when you drag
parts.
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Symmetric Mate
Allows two similar entities to be symmetric about a
face or plane
Features allowed:
Points
Planes or planar faces
Spheres of equal radius
Cylinders of equal radius
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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
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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
components
Can 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 of
movement
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 mates
Condense 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
Arcs
Splines
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Rack & Pinion Mate
Linear translation of one component (the rack)
causes circular rotation in another component (the
pinion)
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 relationship
between 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 causes
translation of the other component.
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Happy Mating, Mates
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Michael.Puckett@3DS.com