×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Assembly mates

Assembly mates

Assembly mates

(OP)
I'm trying to mate a rivet to a curved face. Rivet is concentric to hole. Aligned right plane of asm and front plane of rivet parallel. Tried to add coincident, sketched point on bottom edge of rivet head with curved face. SW won't accept it. Tried with line and end point of line, both failed to work. Tried tangent between bottom face of rivet head and curved face. Each time I get a message: !(w/yellow triangle)"General surface and point are not coincident. Separation distance is ______mm." Why would it not move the rivet face tangent to the curved face? Why would it not move the point to the curved face? It used to work in previous versions of SW. SW2005 had some similar issues. This is with SW 2006 SP1. Regardless if I have a conflict with the other mates preventing tangency it should still put the point on the curved face. This should not be an issue. I'm trying to mate about 106 rivets to the same curved face so this is really irritating.

RE: Assembly mates

rcass,

Create a plane tangent to the curved face within that part and mate the rivet head coincident to the plane.

yanceman

RE: Assembly mates

(OP)
Tried to respond yesterday afternoon but for some reason I kept getting "page not found" error.??

Anyhow,

Thanks yanceman, Thought about that but was hoping for something easier than creating 20-24 planes. I've had problems in SW2005 with mating a line to a flat face but point to face has always worked. I'm in the habit of adding points and line sketches to models for ease of mating odd parts.

RE: Assembly mates

rcass

I tried on SW2003 and works like a dream assuming i've simulaed your condition correctly. i touched on the inside face of the rivet and the outside face of the mating part and both parts mated in tangent to one another with no problems,sounds like you may be right and there are issues with your version.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources