How to mate a cylinder and a cube

My appologies if the first post got through to anyone...

I'm trying to mate the center of a cylinder (flat side) to the center
of a side of a cube... any recommendations on how to line this up?

Thanks,

David.

 

BTW, I have tried reference geometry, but it does not seem to be
selectable in the assembly, only in the part... is there a way to
change this?

 

Hi David,
Besides the obvious face mating etc. you can mate sketch entities or planes
like Front - in the assy find your parts and drill down to the appropriate
item right click and Show. N.B. Make sure that you have enabled viewing of
them in the View menu on the main toolbar. Use them as selectable items. HTH

 

The most robust way is to think ahead when you are building the parts about
how you are going to mate them. Build the cube symmetrical to your base
planes. Do the same for the cylinder. Then you can use the planes to mate
them.

Another method, which also requires thinking ahead, or going back when you
don't, is to make your sketches with center points, show the sketches, and
mate the points. (For the rectangular face, make construction line diagonal
between corners and put a point on the line, with the relationship of
midpoint to the line.)

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"