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Show Mates

famadorian
famadorian Member Posts: 390 ✭✭✭
in Community Support
On the context menu, it has a "Show Mates" button, but nothing shows when I click it. 

If I however hit the "k" keyboard shortcut, it displays all mate connectors for everything in the assembly. 

Why doesn't the context menu button do anything?;)


Best Answer

  • alnis
    alnis Member, Developers Posts: 453 EDU
    Answer ✓
    The context menu "Show mates" shows them for the selected/clicked part.


    If the selected object doesn't have any mates, none will be shown.

    Pressing j on the keyboard will show/hide all mates for all objects.
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  • alnis
    alnis Member, Developers Posts: 453 EDU
    Answer ✓
    The context menu "Show mates" shows them for the selected/clicked part.


    If the selected object doesn't have any mates, none will be shown.

    Pressing j on the keyboard will show/hide all mates for all objects.
    Get in touch: contact@alnis.dev | My personal site: https://alnis.dev
    @alnis is my personal account. @alnis_ptc is my official PTC account.
  • famadorian
    famadorian Member Posts: 390 ✭✭✭
    Right, it did show it; it was just so far away from the object, I had to zoom out;). Thanks. 


  • alnis
    alnis Member, Developers Posts: 453 EDU
    No problem! Happy to help.

    As a bonus tip, to quickly see your whole model, you can press f on your keyboard.
    Then, to zoom back in, you can press w and select a rectangle that you'd like to zoom to.
    Get in touch: contact@alnis.dev | My personal site: https://alnis.dev
    @alnis is my personal account. @alnis_ptc is my official PTC account.
  • wout_theelen541
    wout_theelen541 Member, csevp Posts: 200 PRO
    Hi, I am working with a document and using the show mates option does show the mates on the model but not in the mates features lift. It would be quite helpful if this was the case.

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