Planar Mates

walt_j1

I am new to OnShape but been using SW software for years.  I am having trouble with the Planar mate.  I am trying to use this mate to offset 3 planes of one part to 3 planes of a fixed part with offsets.  Imagine trying to put a smaller square cube into a larger square hole.  This, in effect, would fix the 2 parts together in a position.  I get the first two planar mates ok.  The 3rd one will not let me offset the distance I need.  Any suggestions?

viru

@walt_jones , Welcome to the Onshape, friendly bunch of people here. You can use fastened mate to solve your requirement by putting offset distance value. X=Red, Y=Green, Z=Blue show color coding for measurement lines as shown in below video.


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You can refer various tutorials by referring below link.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/index.htm#cshid=tutorials

Please refer assembly mate tutorial video which may be helpful to learn about assembly mate.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/#assembly_mates_video.htm?Highlight=mate video

If you have any doubt and problem then feel free to ask in forum.

viru

@walt_jones , Welcome to the Onshape, friendly bunch of people here. You can use fastened mate to solve your requirement by putting offset distance value. X=Red, Y=Green, Z=Blue show color coding for measurement lines as shown in below video.


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You can refer various tutorials by referring below link.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/index.htm#cshid=tutorials

Please refer assembly mate tutorial video which may be helpful to learn about assembly mate.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/#assembly_mates_video.htm?Highlight=mate video

If you have any doubt and problem then feel free to ask in forum.

walt_j1

Thanks...just a different way of thinking I have to figure out!