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Example of Mate Reference with Multiple Mated Entities

Components bushing, shaft01, and shaft02 each have a mate reference named shaft, defined as follows:

 

Reference Entity

Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

Entity

Mate Type

Entity

Mate Type

Entity

Mate Type


bushing

 

cylindrical face

 

concentric

 

planar end face

 

coincident

 

face of flat

 

parallel


shaft01

 

cylindrical face

 

concentric

 

planar end face

 

coincident

 

face of flat

 

parallel


shaft02

 

cylindrical face

 

concentric

 

planar end face

 

coincident

 

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If bushing is a component of an assembly, and you insert shaft01 into the assembly, the components mate automatically. However, if you insert shaft02 into the assembly, it does not mate automatically with bushing because their mate references do not contain the same number of entities.

bushing01 and shaft01
mate automatically

bushing01 and shaft02
do not mate automatically

 



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