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Opening the Assembly and Starting the Mates

First, you open an assembly, and then you set up a spherical mate.

  1. Open install_dir\samples\whatsnew\assemblies\spherical_mates\ball ring.SLDASM and save it as my ball ring.SLDASM.

    sphericalmodelbeforemating.png

  2. Click Mate (Assembly toolbar) or Insert > Mate.
  3. Select the ring Face<2>@ring-1 and the sphere Face<1>@ball-1.

    sphericalmatePMselections.png

    The default tangent mate is selected.

    sphericalfrommatepmselect.png

  4. Click .

    sphericalaftermating.png

  5. Close the document without saving it.


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