limit mate with solidworks with 2 values

During one of our recent SOLIDWORKS online training courses an excellent question was poised by one of the students regarding linking SOLIDWORKS Component Dimensions: Am I able to link dimensions. Article by Chris Briand, CSWE updated January 20, 2014. By replacing a mate with a mate primitive, you can remove redundant constraints on a component by limiting degrees of freedom on the component one at a time. Linking SOLIDWORKS Component Dimensions to Global Variables at the Assembly Level. You can define linear/linear coupler mates to set up linearly coupled motion between components in models.Ī mate primitive is a mate that constrains at most two degrees of freedom.

Motion for Components Mated with Linear Couplers.

Using motion study-specific mates, you can create multiple motion studies to analyze model motion with different mates without changing the model. Motion study-specific mates are mates created for a motion study that are independent of the assembly model mates. You can modify the mate location to override the default location. SOLIDWORKS Motion studies use mate location points to determine how parts move in relation to each other. You can limit the angular movement between the two components.

It has the same effect as adding a concentric mate plus a coincident mate. Lastly, I add a limit mate from planes between the two eyelets. I then mate them both in the main assembly to their mounting holes, and then mate them concentric to eachother. One subassembly is the top half, and the other is the bottom half.

Using Mates for Motion Analysis Studiesįor Motion Analysis studies, having redundant mates is the equivalent of over-defining a SOLIDWORKS model.Ī hinge mate limits the movement between two components to one rotational degree of freedom. When I am putting shock absorbers in my assemblies, I always make them into two subassemblies.

You can set the values for distance and angle mates, and change these values for different points in an animation.

You can use mates to restrict motion between components for motion studies.

Limit mate with solidworks with 2 values