Automatically add a mate connector at the intersection of 2 lines

Ben_Niewood

Today I was building an assembly with sheet metal parts. I needed to add a mate connector in the virtual 'corner' of a bend in the part (i.e. at the intersection of the two edges of the part). I had to put the mate connector on another point, measure the distance from that point to the corner, then move it by that distance. It would be great if there was an automatic way to add a mate connector by selecting the edges or something like that.

Jake_Rosenfeld

@Ben_Niewood

Maybe this workflow will help (it's not automatic, but it's better than having to do the math by hand):

1. Create a sketch on the plane which contains both the lines
2. Create a point anywhere on the sketch
3. Create a 'coincident' constraint between the point and the first line
4. Create a 'coincident' constraint between the point and the second line
5. Finish the sketch
6. Create a Mate Connector on the point.

With this workflow, the point will update parametrically, and there are no hard-coded values.
Example:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4cc4e9922afd7c1bfccd7e40/w/af261989e6af8e9cd7d25fbb/e/d1e734afabe2d9504220e850

Ben_Niewood

That's a good point, probably safer to do it that way, thanks for the tip!

brucebartlett

I posted this improvement request here for a virtual mate connector.

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/29901#Comment_29901