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Mating parts together in an assembly

Mating parts together in an assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Mating parts together in an assembly

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about mates inside of SolidWorks. Now that I've got my assembly started, I've got individual parts inside of my assembly, I can grab and I can move these components around on my screen by left-clicking on 'em and dragging 'em around. I can rotate them by right mouse clicking on 'em and rotating 'em around. Now we need to actually connect them together using mates. So the best way to mate something together is to actually say what you would like to connect together out loud. It might sound a little funny to do but if you actually say it out loud, it really makes it easy to figure out what things we need to click and mate together. So before we do that, let's click on the Mate toolbar right up here. So click on Mate, and notice we've got all these standard mates. We get Coincident, Parallel, Perpendicular, Tangent, Concentric, and so on. Now SolidWorks are actually figure this out for us. If…

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