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mid-plane mate
andre_brown101
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Hi
I have 2 parts in a subassembly. they are symmetrically arranged and offset from the origin (forming a center plane) - I have placed a mate connector at its origin. the parts are cylindrical in general form.
the 2 part subassembly is inserted into a top level assembly, and the cylindrical form of one part is mated to a housing part in the top level assembly via a cylindrical mate between the faces of the parts. this works fine.
I need to mate the center plane (the mid point between the two cylindrical parts) to the origin mate connector in the top level assembly to position the subassmbly left-right. however when I do a planar mate it constrains the wrong pair of axis (xy instead of xz) and then proceeds to break the cylindrical mate.
I am going crazy. why can't I just mate planes in an assembly environment? or at very least why can't I chose which pair of axis to use for the planar mate using mate connectors?
I have 2 parts in a subassembly. they are symmetrically arranged and offset from the origin (forming a center plane) - I have placed a mate connector at its origin. the parts are cylindrical in general form.
the 2 part subassembly is inserted into a top level assembly, and the cylindrical form of one part is mated to a housing part in the top level assembly via a cylindrical mate between the faces of the parts. this works fine.
I need to mate the center plane (the mid point between the two cylindrical parts) to the origin mate connector in the top level assembly to position the subassmbly left-right. however when I do a planar mate it constrains the wrong pair of axis (xy instead of xz) and then proceeds to break the cylindrical mate.
I am going crazy. why can't I just mate planes in an assembly environment? or at very least why can't I chose which pair of axis to use for the planar mate using mate connectors?
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The lack of assembly planes does sometimes seem like a huge mistake, but what you can do is add a mate connector in the assembly at the origin. When you create that, you can choose which axis is the primary axis of the MC. Depending on your assembly, picking X, Y or Z may make more sense.