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Width mate
In solidworks, I commonly use a Width mate to place a rectangular part equidistant between two faces. I typically need this for fixtures that hold a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) and I want the board centered between the two interior faces of the fixture. Is there something similar in OnShape. I am exploring OnShape now. I… -
Re: Width mate
I also find the width mate very useful. In this example I mated the yellow block as I would like it. But the pin slot mate only works because I added the blue part underneath. The blue part also won't work if the walls need to be moved, unless it is defined in context to the assembly. If I had wanted to center between the… -
Re: Width mate
@andrew_magaletti, the best I could come up with is a very crude work-around, by using a sketch to both mate the two parts together and then mate the third part to the midpoint of the sketch element. The roller is centered between the two blocks shown below similar to a "width" mate in SolidWorks. Unfortunately you would… -
Re: Width mate
@steve_shubin Moving along a sphere is a bit different from the original topic which was to replicate the Solidworks "Width" functionality which I think my earlier example achieves with two mates and a linear relation (not ideal but not a horrible workaround and doesn't need any "dummy" parts). Looks like you can achieve…
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