 | | From: | SWalker at carrollhealthcare.com | | Subject: | Smart Mates and Smart Fasteners | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:20:12 -0600 |
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 | Can I implement smart mates with fasteners other than the "Toolbox
Fastener" library. In other words, using a Cap Screw I created myself?
I recentley put together an assembly adding fasteners.
Basically, just a plain assembly made up of square plates and blocks
fastened with Socket Head Cap Screws.
After some time into the task, I discovered that the screws were inserting
and mating themselves. A very pleasent surprise. However, I do not know how
I triggered this welcome behaviour.
I've browsed the Swks help files an surmise that only the parts included in
the "Fastener Toolkit" can be made to do this.
I've been using the "ALT" button while dragging but the affore mentioned
"self mating" capability is much preffered.
Can someone point me to a reference or tutorial or tip me off on how to
apply this seemingly obvious assembly tool.
Thanks
SW
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| | From: | Dale Dunn | | Subject: | Re: Smart Mates and Smart Fasteners | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:27:57 GMT |
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| Look up "mate references" in the help. Basically, if the component files
has mate references defined, SW will try to apply them when you drag the
part into an assembly.
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| | From: | SWalker at carrollhealthcare.com | | Subject: | Re: Smart Mates and Smart Fasteners | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:24:47 -0600 |
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| Dale Dunn wrote in
news:Xns95E67540FCA2Cdaledunnatjamestoolc@65.24.7.50:
> Look up "mate references" in the help. Basically, if the component files
> has mate references defined, SW will try to apply them when you drag the
> part into an assembly.
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Thanks.
I found that.
Can't seem to make it work.
No matter how I configure the mate reference (Concentric - aligned, anti-
aligned) the bolt mates backwards upon which I still have to maniulate the
mate to reverse the mate direction.
Additionally, I could not make it work on the secondary entity - The bottom
face of the bolt so as to mate with the bottom face of a conuter bore.
Don't know what I did that other time, but the bolts would mate
automatically in 2 degrees of freedom.
I wonder if the bolt I used was some how (registerd) related into the smart
fastener database. (don't know if I said that right). They plopped right
into counterbored holes and I could populate a series of holes in very
short order.
I'm trying to insert a SHCS into a C-bored hole created with the hole
wizard. Shouldn't SolidWorks recognise the correct orientation?
I'm puzzled.
Anything else I could try?
SW
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| | From: | Dale Dunn | | Subject: | Re: Smart Mates and Smart Fasteners | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:20:08 GMT |
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| Try creating a mate reference by selecting only a circular udge unter the
head of the screw with a default mate type. That should get what you need.
I'm not sure how to make the default orientation correct using that method.
All I know is, mine works.
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| | From: | Merry Owen | | Subject: | Re: Smart Mates and Smart Fasteners | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:28:09 +0800 |
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| Like Dale said - create a 'mate reference' - this can be done in either a
part or an assembly (e.g. I have many of my fasteners already made up into
assemblies). While inserting your feature part or assembly and it previews
to be going in the wrong way press the 'Tab' key and it should flip over.
There is one other thing that can make it mate up incorrectly when inserting
a fastener stack (eg. washer, then bolt, then nut) - if the mate references
are all named the same (i.e. 'default mate reference name') then sometimes
your 2nd item will mate to the 1st items mate reference.
Another thing that will stuff it all up - don't use chamfers or fillets on
the underside of bolt heads, nuts, etc. as SW cannot seem to mate correctly
to these.
Merry :-)
"Dale Dunn" wrote in message
news:Xns95E6CF7B988Bdaledunnatjamestoolc@65.24.7.50...
> Try creating a mate reference by selecting only a circular udge unter the
> head of the screw with a default mate type. That should get what you need.
> I'm not sure how to make the default orientation correct using that
method.
> All I know is, mine works.
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