- Mate Folders
When you create a new assembly, an empty Mates folder is automatically included in the FeatureManager design tree.
- Adding Mates
Mates create geometric relationships between assembly components. As you add mates, you define the allowable directions of linear or rotational motion of the components. You can move a component within its degrees of freedom, visualizing the assembly's behavior.
- Applying Standard Mates from a Context Toolbar
You can apply standard mates in an assembly from a context toolbar.
- Modifying a Mating Relationship
- Suppressing a Mating Relationship
You can suppress mates to prevent them from being solved. This allows you to experiment with different types of mates without over defining the assembly.
- Deleting a Mating Relationship
You can delete mates. When you delete a mate, it is deleted in all configurations of the assembly.
- Fixing the Position of a Component
You can fix the position of a component so that it cannot move with respect to the assembly origin. By default, the first part in an assembly is fixed; however, you can float it at any time.
- Mating to Origins and Coordinate Systems
You can apply a coincident mate between the origin or a coordinate system of a component and the origin or a coordinate system of the assembly or another component.
- Default Mate Types
When you select cylindrical faces or circular edges to mate with an axis, the software creates a concentric mate. When you select two parallel planar faces, the software creates a coincident mate.