Locating Sub-Assembly part to Main Assembly part.
Locating Sub-Assembly part to Main Assembly part.
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I'm trying to mate a 90 degree connector of my PC Board Sub-Assembly to the chassis in the Main assembly.
Pick - PC Board SA > Edit Sub-assembly. The main assembly turns transparrent.
I pick the connector > Add/Edit Mates. I can pick the surfaces in the sub-assembly but not on the Main Assembly.
Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish this. I'm just trying to locate the connector to the assembly before I redefine it in the sub-assembly.
Solidworks 2005
SP0.0
PESOA
Pick - PC Board SA > Edit Sub-assembly. The main assembly turns transparrent.
I pick the connector > Add/Edit Mates. I can pick the surfaces in the sub-assembly but not on the Main Assembly.
Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish this. I'm just trying to locate the connector to the assembly before I redefine it in the sub-assembly.
Solidworks 2005
SP0.0
PESOA






RE: Locating Sub-Assembly part to Main Assembly part.
Just pick the surfaces or planes that you need to Mate in the main Assy and apply Mates.
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RE: Locating Sub-Assembly part to Main Assembly part.
What I normally do:-
1) Place & mate the connector in the top level assy.
2) Use the Tools > Re-organize Components feature to move the connector into the required sub-assy. You can also use the Feature Manager & simly drag-n-drop it. Either way the mates will be lost or broken & can be deleted or suppressed.
3) Either Fix the connector in the sub-assy or create new mates to keep it in its position.
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RE: Locating Sub-Assembly part to Main Assembly part.
This didn't work for me. When I applied the mates for the surface on the connector to the surface on the chassis, it over constrained my sub-assembly and didn't move the connector. I'll have to look into this further.
CorBlimeyLimey,
Thanks for the Re-organize Components tip. I know a similar command from "some other CAD package" and was looking for it.
What I wound up doing was Edit > Disolve Sub-Assembly, Edited the mates on the connector in the top assembly and then re-created the sub-assembly using "Make new sub-assembly here." I did have to redefine the Mates for the connector. If it was a larger sub-assembly that may have been complicated and I would choose to use the Re-Organize Components command.
I'm pretty sure that I had seen a setting in options or somewhere else that allowed the choice of showing the main assembly to be shown as transparent or not when modifying a sub-assembly. I'm thinking that if the main assembly isn't transparent, the surface should be able to be picked. I hope I find that setting again some day.
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RE: Locating Sub-Assembly part to Main Assembly part.
I can try to clarify more if this is confusing. It's a concept that you won't find in the manuals or help menus.
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