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Two tangent mates
Dean_Gardner
Member Posts: 88 PRO
Has anyone ever managed to have one part mate tangentially in two positions? I have a plate with rollers moving along two tracks from one position to another and this should work, but Onshape thinks that i am over defining the assembly, which i am not. If i remove one of the tangent propagation options on either mate, it works. But of course that does not provide the movement i need. Anyone have a workaround for this type of mate?
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If everything else fails, you can always use some intermediate "dummy" geometry like sketches/surfaces/curves. In this case a sketch with just line with the end "tangent" to a curve representing the centerline of the track and mated to the pink part would remove any risk of over-constraining anything.