Mating the Front Planes of the Saddle and Assembly

  1. In the flyout FeatureManager design tree, select the following for Entities to Mate :
    1. Front Plane of the assembly mill
    2. Front Plane of the component saddle
    Do not accept the coincident mate. Instead, add a distance mate.
  2. In the Mate pop-up toolbar:
    1. Click Distance .
    2. Enter 250mm for Distance and press Enter.
    3. To see how you can flip the direction of the dimension, select and then clear Flip Dimension several times.
    4. Select or clear Flip Dimension to position the saddle near the center of the knee.
  3. Click twice, to accept the mate and to close the PropertyManager.
    The positions of the saddle and table are fully defined. In the FeatureManager design tree, the prefix (-) no longer appears for saddle and table.