Creating Mate Connector in Assembly

gerald_friedman

In an assembly when one chooses to create a mate connector one of the options is "between entities".

What does this mean?????

NeilCooke

It is for creating a mate connector mid-way between two faces, edges, etc. The geometry you select must belong to the same part.

gerald_friedman

Ah, the geometry one selects must belong to the same part!

Now I understand.

It might be nice though to be able to select a point between two like features on two parts.

For example, in the image attached, the snap ring grooves at either end of the pin in the image are adjacent to holes in two different parts. The pin is centered between the two parts.

NeilCooke

I agree - do me a favour - please raise a support ticket to request that feature

malay_kumar

Mate connector using two parts will be difficult to support as part can move on solving mates resulting mate connector to move and needing to solve assembly mates again. This could result to endless solving of assembly mates. You could however create the mate connector using multiple parts in Part studio and that would be an acceptable solution in many cases.

gerald_friedman

Malay,

I understand the dilemma.

Just have to offset half the distance from one side.

Thanks,

g

Josiah_Harthcock

@gerald_friedman
Did you make a support ticket for this, cause I'd love to 1+ it 

owen_sparks

This IR already exists

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9722/assembly-mates-allow-mates-between-multiple-instances

Owen S.