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Radial mate connectors

jon_smirl
jon_smirl Member Posts: 15 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2016 in Community Support
I can't figure out how to make a pie and then have the pieces of the pie expand out radially on mate connectors. My goal is to allow an exploded view of the object. Can this be done?  I need a mate connector down the centerline of the piece but there is none.  Can this work on a round shell (ie no tip of the pie piece to work with)?
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  • brucebartlett
    brucebartlett Member, OS Professional, Mentor, User Group Leader Posts: 2,148 PRO
    edited May 2016
    add your mate connectors to the sketch in the part studio, you may need a construction line for this, then link the new mate connector to the part you want it to go with. 
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  • traveler_hauptman
    traveler_hauptman Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers Posts: 419 PRO
    edited May 2016
    EDIT: As malay pointed out, you can place mate connectors at the origin in assemblies. No need to create the hack part I mention below...

    Working with non-part entities in Assemblies is not implemented yet. (You want to move your parts relative to some center point.)

    You can hack around this by creating a small part to be at the center.

    Once you have that, for each direction you want to explode you can attach a mate connector to the "center" and a mate connector to the exploding part, aligned in the direction you want. This will work even with no pie 'tip'.

    So if you have 5 pie pieces, you will have 5 mate connectors attached to the "center" part, each rotated to face the direction you want, and 1 mate connector each for the pie pieces.
  • jon_smirl
    jon_smirl Member Posts: 15 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016
    I was able to get this working by creating mate connectors in part studio along the axis I needed.  I was trying to do it in the assembly and it is is not possible to do there without having previously creating the mates in the part studio.
  • brucebartlett
    brucebartlett Member, OS Professional, Mentor, User Group Leader Posts: 2,148 PRO
    On your slider mate you could set limits.
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  • malay_kumar
    malay_kumar Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 93 image
    Mate connector can be defined using the assembly origin. That should work in this case. 

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