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How to create this specific mate ?
I'm designing a mechanism including a small R/C servo actuating some kind of trigger : The red hook rotates freely around the bolt at the end of one of its arms and the horn rotates around the servo output axis. No problem for modeling the related mates. But hat I'd like to model is the mate between the horn and the hook,…
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Features in linear pattern not generating consistently
Workspace in question: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/271f21901617d414379deeff/w/cd5ff1694f30cd815e7a7fa2/e/733c305ecad3fb11e6906bf2?configuration=AR%3D3.5%3BRibCount%3D4.0%3BS%3D4.5%3BTR%3D0.6&renderMode=0&uiState=6760e71a37f4be1332ee59be "Linear pattern 5" includes, among other features, "Mate connector 2" and "3.2 mm…
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Mate connector "sheet into corner"
I am having a hard time to connect an angle sheet with another sheet metal. I also tried to make helper planes but I dont know how I can access them with the "mate" tool. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b7a798b9398ad1ddc5f891fb/w/21345690468c23d6707854c4/e/f9545be33ad12c8cbe3cd53a V5 The 2 parts are called…
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Replicate breaking mates
Hey, So I've built some assemblies and they work fine. The parts have zero freedom in the assembly and are all located as I want them to. Then I put that assembly into a higher assembly and it works, it looks great, everything in the initial instance is in the right place but then I replicate it and the replications have…
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mate connector visibilty settings
I find the mate connectors only useful for assembling parts. But they show up every time and stay visible also after you have mated them in an assembly. So I use "hide all mate connectors" so often, I am starting to wonder if there is a setting that manipulates their behaviour. When I am modeling, and use the assembly tab…
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Can assemblies have mate connectors?
I have an assemby that I want to fasten to another assembly. Can I create a mate connector for one assembly and fasten it to a mate connector in another assembly?
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mate connector based on other mate connector in assembly
Is it possible to create a mate connector based off another mate connector in assembly? in part studio you could either use a custom feature like multimateconnector or use transform to move and copy the original mateconnector. problem with transform however its no loger linked to the owner part of the original mate…
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How to make multiple instances of feature based on selecting multiple mate connectors.
If some could help me with this or give me a reference document with something similar that would be great. I am trying to make a shape appear wherever I select a mate connector using Feature Script.
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Exporting assemblies with mate data intact
TL;DR: I want to export an assembly so that I can import it to an animation program while retaining mates This at first seems like a silly question to be asking. A few months ago I was working on a project that involved analyzing an assembly I made with OnShape in MATLab's Simulink program. As I was learning to use the…
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Part mate connectors are disappearing in assembly
Hi, I have been using Onshape for a while now and have encountered a weird and frustrating issue. I have defined mate connectors on some parts as shown in the images below: In both cases the mate connectors are at the bottom of the feature tree. When I import these parts into my assembly these mate connectors disappear.…
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translate/ copy to multiple mate connectors
Hi, Is it possible to transform/copy a part to multiple mate connectors at once? I only seem to be able to do it one by one? And if possible to select multiple mate connectors, can you also account for configurations where you can have more (or less) mate connectors to appear (depending on the configuration made) eg copy…
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Can I have unique names for assemblies and their mates that are created via circular pattern.
Hi, I've got a couple of subassemblies stacked and connected via revolute mates into a "tower". I have no problem duplicating this aggregate assembly using Assembly Circular Pattern, resulting in a few towers. However, I've got the mates uniquely named in tower1 (dof_tower1_a, dof_tower1_b, ...), and would like to be able…
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Mate connectors: What is the side dialog intended for? (just curious)
Above, you see a dialog while I'm hovering on top of that mate. It looks like I could change the values right from here, but if I move the mouse to the right, the dialog disappears around the "show/hide" icon. I never reach it. Is it intended to stay put, so I could e.g. edit the entries from here? What I was trying to…