To modify a mating relationship:
- Expand the Mates folder in the FeatureManager design tree. Right-click one or more mates, and select Edit Feature.
The mates appear under Mates in the PropertyManager and the related geometry is highlighted in the graphics area.
- In the PropertyManager, select the mate to edit under Mates and change the desired options.
- Mate alignment (Aligned or Anti-aligned) on mates which imply a direction
- Flip dimension to reverse the direction in which a Distance or Angle mate is measured
- Value of an Angle or Distance mate
- Select a different mate type.
- To replace one entity with another, click the entity to replace in the Mate Selections box, press Delete, then select the new entity.
- Click .
To change only the dimension value of a
Distance or
Angle mate, double-click the mate in the FeatureManager design tree, then double-click the dimension to edit. Enter the new value in the
Modify box, then click
Rebuild .
You can also control the value of distance and angle mates in a design table. The column header in the design table uses the syntax dimension@mate_name (for example, D1@Distance1.) In the table body cells, type the value for the dimension. See Dimensions in Configurations.