problems with mates in SW2008...

I have split a solid body along a curve into the 2 parts, then done all
sorts of work to the parts to hollow them out (one is just a shell, the
other is quite a bit more involved.

Anyway. how do I mate them back together again in the final assembly? It
greys them all out when I select the edges, the surfaces, or anything
that I would expect to go together on the 2 parts. I need to line up
some screw holes between the 2 parts that I cant do pre-split since it
has to go thru the stuff thats going inside the bottom half of the item.

 

Richard,

The best way is to just use the default datums that are common to both
parts since they did originate as one jointed body originally.

Regards

Mark

 

and... it would be a whole lot easier for the user to mate via
"Default or any Coordinate System" (click or click/click.. instead of
(6) or more clicks to mate??

... (btw,.. has this been added to SW2009?)

 

Doesnt matter since its not working like I had expected, my changed to
the split part dont go back to the part that I put the split into, and I
cant reference the other half of it in the assembly where I am putting
it back together so Im gonna have to think of another way of doing it.

 

When you split the parts originally all the resulting bodies shared
the same location in the global coordinate system with the original
single body. This would be true in each body saved as well as in the
original part. As long as you have not relocated the resulting bodies
wrt their global coordinate systems you can mate the corresponding
front, right and top planes in the two parts and they will be in the
same location there were in when first split.

In general when working with parts that are to be used in an assembly
and which don't have any natural mating faces (think of a section of a
helix on an auger for example) you have to provide some type of datum
that makes sense and that can be used for mating.

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