Completing the Hinge

Insert a hinge mate to replace the redundant mate pair.

1. Click Zoom to Area (View toolbar) and focus on the hinge.
   
2. Click Mate (Assembly toolbar) or Insert > Mate.
3. Under Mechanical Mates, click Hinge .
4. For Mate Selections, select the following:

   Option	Description
   Concentric Selections	Select the faces that specified the original concentric mate: Face <1> @my_base linkage-1 Edge <1>@my_top linkage-1/my_connector-1>
   Coincident Selections	Select the faces that specified the original coincident mate: Face <2>@my_top linkage-1/my_connector-1> Face <3> @my_base linkage-1 Click No if the Update Initial Animation State dialog box appears.

   The face and edge numbers might not match these values exactly.
5. Click to save the hinge mate.
6. Click .
7. Click Calculate (MotionManager toolbar).

   The replacement hinge mate reduces the number of redundancies to 6.