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placing electrical components on a DIN RAIL
Christopher_Moutoulas
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Good morning
I haven't found a quick way to assemble electrical components on a DIN rail.
Has anyone found a way to place a mate connector at the correct position on the connecting slot of the component so it can be precisely mated to a rail with a "top hat" section?
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can you add a mate connector to the part in the part-studio?
Can you use the linear pattern in Assembly studio?
+1 for Jelte's answer. It's best practice to place important mate connectors on your parts at the part studio level, this way they auto populate when you place them and replicate them within an assembly. You can use the snap mode to quickly snap your parts onto the rail with the slider mate.
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As Jelte wrote: Add a mate connector in the same location (e.g. upper edge of upper flange of the rail) in the respective part studios to all your components and make each part the owner of its MC. Then add one mate connector to the rail model, and maybe use a slider condition to tread them all up on the rail and maybe move along the rails as needed. That's what I usually do.
All these terminals are made by linear pattern in ass'y mode
I always do that
this works great.
Thanks.
I always do that