Chapter 13: Getting More from Mates
FIGURE 13.26
Creating a Width mate
- Mate both of the grippers to the Arm2 end using the same mating technique that
you used for the previous conical face Coincident part.
- Once you have applied these parts, try moving the various joints of the assembly.
Notice that it is difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the motion of just a single part. This
is because there are too many open degrees of freedom, and a lot of ambiguity.
- Fix Arm2 to allow you to move the gripper parts as you want. Create a Symmetric
mate between the indicated faces of the grippers and the Front plane of the Arm2 part, as
shown in Figure 13.28.
- Practice making angle mates, suppressing mates, and fixing parts to limit motion.
- Save the assembly and exit the file.
