Part III: Working with Assemblies
FIGURE 13.25
Displaying a SmartMate when dragging between windows
Drag the inner face of the hole
- Open a Windows Explorer window, and select the following parts: Chapter 13
Robot Arm2 and Chapter 13 Robot Gripper. Drag these parts into the SolidWorks
assembly window and drop them in a blank space.
- Select the chamfered faces of the Arm and Arm2 parts and create a Coincident mate
between them. You can make Coincident mates between conical faces as long as the
cones are the same angle. This special case acts like a combination of Concentric and
Coincident mates. Figure 13.27 shows the selections and the results.
- Create a copy of the gripper part so that there are two instances of it in the
assembly. You can do this by Ctrl+dragging the part within the assembly window with
the Mate PropertyManager closed.
