Mate Reference

Good day,

I am having a issue trying to create a mate reference to an Coordinate
system from a point.

I am a long time Proe user so I have some preset ideas that i have to
over come, so I guess you could say I am already handicapped, please
forgive me.

I want to do a mate that will allow a mate from a point to a
Coordinate system or another point that will give me 2 degrees of
freedom.

Tia

Chris

 

Chris, I am presumng that you're talking about Assemblies, since you use
the term "mates". If you are thinking in terms of Parts then it's
probably better to be talking in terms of "relationships". You can also
use the term "constraint" pretty much interchangeably with either "mate"
or "relationship" but that gets you into an area where your terminology
could be ambiguous.

Think of the coordinate system as being comprised of the three basic
pre-existing planes that all run through the origin. You can Mate your
point or vertex (or edge or face or plane) as Coincident to any of those
planes or at a Distance from those planes. You can also Mate an edge,
face or plane at an Angle to those planes. And of course you can Mate a
point, vertex, edge, face or plane to the Origin as Coincident or at a
Distance to it. You can even use Sketch elements in a Sketch which is
the basis for a Feature to create Mates, but first you need to
right-click on the Sketch and choose "Show sketch" so you can pick one
or more Sketch elements.

Hope that helps.

Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton
Charlotte, NC, USA